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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Consumer Price Index for June quarter will be released. In companies news, Alesco Corporation Ltd will report its annual results and Lihir Gold Ltd will issue its second quarter production report. Whitehaven Coal ...

Seven US banks close in a week

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... US - suggesting the troubles in the US banking system are far from over. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation website, seven banks were closed on Friday, July 23. There has been over 100 banks that were seized during 2010. The latest ...

Former MLC chief takes Perpetual chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... director of Perpetual for five years. He is currently chairman of Sinclair Knight Merz and a director of Stockland Corporation. He has had considerable experience in the financial services sector and the property industry, including chief executive of ...

SEC launches new divisions to protect investors

SEC RELEASES  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... can stay ahead of the curve and better protect investors," said Meredith Cross, director of the SEC's division of corporation finance. This comes after the US regulator proposed a new rule that would pause trading in certain individual stocks if the ...

AIA to list, names new chief

PRESS RELEASES  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... Mark Tucker as executive chair and chief executive of AIA. Tucker previously worked as chief executive at Prudential Corporation Asia from 1992 to 2003. He joined Prudential in 1986 and was the group chief executive of Prudential plc from May 2005 to ...

US pension funds get $800m from class action

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... Funds and the Ohio Attorney General's Office previously announced a $83 million settlement with General Reinsurance Corporation, a $113 million settlement with PricewaterhouseCoopers and a $133 million settlement with chief executive Maurice R. "Hank" ...

Broker jailed for false trades

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
Former Macquarie Equities client adviser Newton Chan has been sentenced to a 20-month imprisonment term - serving four months immediately before being released on a recognisance release order - for share price manipulation. He was sentenced in the Supreme ...

AvSuper selects Hastings and Invesco

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... investments in Australia, the US, UK and Europe including equity stakes in Perth Airport, the Australian Pacific Airports Corporation and UK-based South East Water. AvSuper has an existing global listed infrastructure investment mandate with RARE Infrastructure. ...

CFD health check prompts more oversight

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
The regulator has stepped up its monitoring of the contract for difference (CFD) market and proposed new measures to improve the market's transparency, following a study that found consumers are still confused about the risks when trading CFDs. The ...

More planners gain SMSF cred

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
SPAA has recorded a 20 per cent jump in advisers seeking self managed super fund (SMSF) specialist accreditation as planners embrace higher professional standards to cater for the biggest sub-segment of the superannuation industry. The increased demand ...