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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... up 15 per cent to $2.60 after the department store chain received a takeover offer from a mystery entity in the United Kingdom. In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton was two cents higher at $30.74, and Rio Tinto was down 30 cents cents to ...

Barclays fined $A451 million

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... breach was discovered after an investigation into lending rates (called Libor and Euribor) reported by banks in the United Kingdom. The Libor and Euribor rates are benchmark reference rates that indicate the interest rate which banks charge when lending ...

Fisher Investments makes Australian move

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... resources to its existing wholly-owned subsidiary in London - Fisher Investments UK. Fisher has had a presence in the United Kingdom since 2000, but additional staff will be dedicated to serving institutional investors across the European continent. ...

Brogden calls for government agreement on FATCA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... officials have been communicating with their US counterparts on the issue. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement with the United States indicating their intention to enter into an intergovernmental agreement ...

ASIC calls for detailed disclosure on holdings of super funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... for a lack of transparency. "Clearly you have full disclosure of portfolio holdings in the United States and the United Kingdom so my view is at the end of the day it should be full portfolio disclosure," Medcraft said. "I'm always reluctant when someone ...

Social infrastructure not suited to pension funds: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... Fund Investment in Social Infrastructure: Insights from the 2012 reform of the private finance initiative in the United Kingdom," the EDHEC-Risk Institute identifies two core issues that they argue make social infrastructure potentially unsuited to pension ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... the "Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination & Governance in the Economic & Monetary Union (TSCGEMU) on 2 March. The United Kingdom and the Czech Republic refused to sign - but we already knew that. The treaty will now go to individual member countries' parliaments ...

Investec appoints new head asset finance ad leasing

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... hopes to replicate the success of a similar Asset Finance & Leasing model adopted by its parent business in the United Kingdom, Investec Plc.

IRESS launches UK wealth management division

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
IRESS has launched its Wealth Management division in the United Kingdom on the back of its selection as strategic supplier of wealth management advice technology by Sesame Bankhall Group, the largest distributor of retail financial advice in the UK. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... weakened 18 cents to $7.87 after it sold its 75 per cent stake in the Broadmarsh shopping centre in Nottingham in the United Kingdom for STG55 million ($A86.86 million). Telstra was down three cents to $3.10 as it completed the issue of a 750 million ...