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ASIC slaps tough penance for fin services misconduct

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
In a landmark case, a young broker charged with multiple counts of insider trading has received a four-and-a-half year jail sentence, the highest sentence on record for that offence in Australia. On December 2 John Joseph Hartman, 25, of Mosman, New ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
The Australian share market has lost some of its early gains but remains higher at noon as stocks follow positive leads from markets in the United States and Europe. At 1201 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 20.3 points, or 0.43 per cent, at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
The Australian market is receiving strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all key securities indices higher along most commodities, supported by positive data releases. On the ASX 24 at 0731 AEDT, the December share price index ...

Macquarie Wrap launches model portfolios

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
Macquarie Wrap will launch its latest model portfolio after trialing it with ten dealer groups to test functionality and capabilities. The launch marks the first stage in the delivery of its next generation wrap platform, the Macquarie Wrap Model Portfolios ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... calculated last month. The latest ADP/Macroeconomic Advisors survey showed that private US companies added 93,000 jobs in November - the largest increase since November 2007 and more than the expected 70K increase. Better still, the previous month's ...

VIP hedge funds open doors

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... huge returns from accurately predicting the meltdown in the market for subprime mortgage securities. Since inception in November '07, the fund of hedge funds has achieved an annualised return of 2.57 per cent, compared to a near 9 per cent decline in ...

Tyndall names head of retail

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
Tyndall Investments promoted Andrew Julius to head of retail, less than a fortnight after Japan-based Nikko Asset Management bought the fund manager from its previous owner, Suncorp Life. Julius' new responsibilities will include managing key relationships ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
"It's always darkest before dawn." This axiom came to mind as I watched Wall Street recouped its previous day's losses. Everything that could go wrong appeared to have gone wrong yesterday. There was shelling in the Korea's. Ireland's acceptance of ...

Tasmanian former adviser charged for no AFSL

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
John Vafiadis, previously of Hobart, has been charged for running an advice business without an Australian Financial Services license. Vafiadis appeared in the Hobart Magistrates' Court charged with two counts of carrying on a financial services business ...

J.P.Morgan and ANZ complete migration

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
J.P. Morgan Treasury & Securities Services completes its migration of direct and master custody clients from ANZ Custodian Services, building its custody and administration services. The process, which started in November 2009, has raised the number ...