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William Blair opens three funds to Australian investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... broader global equity market leaders and to industry sectors and themes that may not be accessible via the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) - something that, arguably, Australians need even more than United States and European investors, because ...

Folkestone acquires Maxim property boutique

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Folkestone has acquired boutique property fund manager Maxim Asset Management (Maxim), a specialist in listed real estate securities and high yield real estate debt. Maxim was co-founded by Winston Sammut in 2003. Sammut has more than 30 years' experience ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... doesn't matter what form it takes - negative deposit rates, offer new long-term loans to European banks, unsterilised securities markets program (SMP), asset purchases (QE) - but provide more accommodation, the ECB would, they thought. All they got was ...

ASIC takes legal action against Mariner over Austock takeover

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has started legal action against listed funds management company Mariner Corporation (Mariner) over its proposed 2012 takeover bid for financial services company Austock Group (Austock). ASIC ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and securities regulators have opened up an examination into whether high frequency trading (HFT) firms are involved in insider trading. According to reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) lawyer James Wheeldon has revealed the regulator gave favourable treatment to the big end of the market. Wheeldon appeared yesterday at a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the performance ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... futures contract was 11 points higher at 5,394 points, with 12,692 contracts traded. * National turnover was 560 million securities worth $1.29 billion.

Bank complaints over TV ads seek to "stifle" competition: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) said that major banks were behind the complaints to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to the organisation's new 'Compare the Pair' television commercials. ISA deputy chief executive ...

Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... net worth investors. In Australia this is reflected in the 96% correlation super fund returns have with the S&P/ASX securities market index, leading to a frustration that has culminated in indexing increase its market share to an all-time high. "We're ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index surged 69.05 (1.64 per cent) to 4,268.04. Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities, said investors feel more reassured about the US economy after "better" data, including a report Tuesday from the Institute ...