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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Wall Street securities have provided a positive lead to the Australian stock market on Friday, although key commodities all were lower in overnight trade. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0740 AEST, the June share price index contract was 27 points ...

SocGen exec quits after insider trading probe

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale's long-standing executive committee member Jean-Pierre Mustier has resigned following a French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) probe into insider trading. Mustier, who had been at the firm for 22 years, agreed he would ...

ASIC lifts restrictions on intra-fund advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... cannot understand why trustees are able to now provide advice without a reasonable basis, and therefore escape criminal sanction, simply because the advice relates to a few scenarios within a superannuation fund," she said. Some super funds might even ...

A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... China. Its leaders are no fools -- they know that China currently holds all the aces. China received no or very little sanction with its 'Buy China' protectionist policy announced last month as part of its stimulus programme. Must be because the US has ...

AUI and DirectPortfolio adopt AML service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) and DirectPortfolio adopted OneVue's anti-money laundering (AML) reporting and record keeping service. AML Explorer can be downloaded online and presents the AML legislation in a simple format that allows users to ...

Bail-out might breach US constitution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
Rising concerns that the $1 trillion investment bank bail-out breaches the US constitution are making it difficult for Congress to quickly approach the bill. At Senate Banking Committee hearings on Capitol Hill, Senator Christopher J Dodd, a Democrat ...

No more short cuts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
UK's financial services regulator has stepped in to ban the shorting of UK bank shares and other financials from today until January next year - mirroring the US regulator's move to tighten rules on short-selling to thwart speculators from causing more ...

New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Logica has created a new software that helps prevent funds from being used by terrorists, reduces risk and provides cost-effective compliance for investment managers and banks. Tech company Logica recently launched HotScan Plus - an automated transaction ...

FPA disciplines 13 members

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
The Financial Planning Association has taken action against 13 of its members for breaches of the organisation's professional standard. FPA had investigated 130 members for alleged breaches from January to March this year. Four members were expelled ...

Race to the pump

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
Fill up now, and expect to pour more cash into the tank next time, as new supply problems and increasing tensions in the Middle East have the price of oil flirting with US$94 a barrel for the first time ever. It's official; the price of oil has climbed ...