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Westpac upgrades online trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
From $600 worth of free brokerage to mobile trading, Westpac Securities has improved its online investing platform to give customers access to better investment and equity trading opportunities. Customers will be able to use a mobile trading platform ...

Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
How do you say ouch in Spanish? They say money can buy happiness... but only if you have more than your neighbours. Or twisted to reflect the current environment of fiscal restraint -- Aussies still whinging at the absence of big give-away door prizes ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
In the words of Coney Francis, "Who's sorry now?" "I tried to warn you somehow You had your way Who's sorry now..." Shocked and awed. Yes, Virginia, this was how speculators felt when they were forced to cover their short positions after the European ...

Van Eyk head of strategic research joins Future Fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Nigel Wilkin-Smith, head of strategic research at van Eyk, has left the research house after several years to join the Future Fund's strategy team - the second senior staff to leave the firm in less than a year. Wilkin-Smith said it was a difficult ...

Fundies caught in $5m heist

SFC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
Hong Kong's regulator moves to ban New York-based Tiger Asia Management from dealing shares in the country ever again after it caught the fund's directors guilty of insider trading - twice. Last August, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) applied ...

Macq wealth mgmt post strong returns

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
Macquarie's funds management, banking and financial services arms reported strong numbers for 2009, powered by overseas acquisitions, higher revenues and a strong cash management business. Assets under management (AUM) for Macquarie Group at 31 March ...

Don't put all eggs in China basket: Gonzalez

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
Emilio Gonzalez, chief executive at BT Investment Management (BT IM), is worried investors are placing too much emphasis on China's growth, which could have a significant impact on portfolios if the bet doesn't pay off. In his first external speech ...

AMP Cap add resources as fund placed 'on hold'

PRESS RELEASES  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
AMP Capital Investors has appointed a portfolio manager and portfolio analyst within the Sustainable Alpha Australian Equities team as a ratings firm placed one of its fund's 'on hold' following the departure of a key researcher. The firm hired Carlos ...

Trades jump for Liquidnet in Asia Pac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
Liquidnet has reported a new quarterly record for principal traded in Asia Pacific equities, with more than $4 billion traded across five core markets. Orders worth $277 (US$257) million were traded on 28 January alone, setting another record for daily ...

ASIC bans client adviser for life

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
The regulator has banned a Brisbane-based former client adviser, Roy Ho, from providing financial services for life. Ho, who previously worked at Tricom Futures Services, now known as Stonebridge Futures Services, admitted to using nine client trading ...