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Dow Jones drops BP from indices

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
Oil giant BP has been struck from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes due to the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Dow Jones Indexes and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) dropped BP from the indices as part of its rules on extraordinary events. "The extent ...

Crédit Agricole signs on Calypso

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
CrA(C)dit Agricole CIB has gone live with Calypso Technology systems across 23 locations in Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Calypso Technology is a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
They love him, they love him not. This is what the financial markets' two-day love-in with Big Ben Bernanke appears to be indicating -- loved one day, ignored the next. Yes Virginia, although there's nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow ...

African dev't needs private equity: Mobius

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
Mark Mobius, executive chair at Templeton Asset Management, said private equity firms could play a major role in developing Africa's natural resources. Mobius said the investment outlook for Africa is positive as its agricultural products and abundance ...

Great Southern investors fight back

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Macpherson + Kelley Lawyers has filed a lawsuit for Great Southern investors seeking the court to void loans given to invest into failed agribusiness investment schemes, including loans provided by Adelaide Bank. The class action covers 1,700 investors ...

Provisio targets intra-fund advice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
Financial technology provider Provisio Technologies is looking to cater to the intra-fund advice market with the release of a new advice delivery service, Provisio Version 3. Cameron O'Sullivan, a director of Provisio Technologies, said several industry ...

India Equities Fund proposes return of capital

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
John Pereira, chief executive of the India Equities Fund, has not ruled out launching another Indian equities strategy but said he is more concerned with meeting existing shareholders and returning capital to investors. According to an ASX statement ...

RSPT is govt trying to pick winners: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
The resource super profits tax (RSPT) is a cash grab from the mining industry that shows overseas investors Australia is prepared to change the rules at the height of a boom, said a leading tax academic. Professor Neil Warren from the Australian School ...

US wants pause button in volatile markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
The US regulator has proposed a new rule that would pause trading in certain individual stocks if the price moves 10 per cent or more in five minutes. This proposal follows a meeting of exchanges, including the US Securities and Exchange Commission ...

MIT tax regime modernised and simplified

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
Fund managers around the country are breathing a big sigh of relief after the government adopts a more common sense approach to the way managed funds are taxed - a big plus for investors that have long been disadvantaged by archaic MIT tax rules. It's ...