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SEC launches new divisions to protect investors

SEC RELEASES  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
US-based Securities and Exchange Commissions has created three specialised corporate finance divisions that will oversee large financial institutions, asset backed securities and structured products. The newly created disclosure office will expand the ...

Pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
h no! Wall Street has run out of puff. Wall Street ended flat overnight after seesawing for much of the trading day. In case you start getting an attack from the jitterbug once again, have no fear... nothing much has really changed. After six days of ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
There's peace and quiet on financial market's overnight. Not a soul was stirring... not even a mouse. The Americans are celebrating their Independence Day. They're on holiday. This gave me a holiday too... that is, a holiday from the daily noises - ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
Gold stocks provided the only bright spot on an otherwise bleak day of trade as the Australian stock market slid into the red to sit one per cent lower at noon. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had fallen 52.3 points, or 1.15 per cent, to ...

US wants pause button in volatile markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
The US regulator has proposed a new rule that would pause trading in certain individual stocks if the price moves 10 per cent or more in five minutes. This proposal follows a meeting of exchanges, including the US Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Asgard spends big on platform upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
BT Financial Group-owned Asgard has spent more money on its investment platforms in the past 18 months than ever as part of a strategy that will see its Master Trust, Elements and eWrap platforms move under the one administration platform. Wayne Wilson ...

Asset consultants under fee pressures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Leading asset consultants were grilled about the value they add to super fund portfolios at an industry conference held yesterday. The results? Refreshingly honest. The heads of four asset consultancies - JANA, Frontier, Towers Watson and Sovereign ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
Australian shares are expected to open flat after Wall Street indices moderately lower. At 0823 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was two points lower at 4,699. In economic news on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
Have no fear, the Fed is here...to stay. Perhaps spooked by the pause on Wall Street in recent days, the Fed found it necessary to re-assure investors that borrowing rates would remain practically free for an "extended period." As if? Yes, as if the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices and commodities prices mostly lower, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive in afternoon trade and the price of gold was higher. At ...