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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... points (0.49 per cent). In local equities news, Country Road has agreed to buy fellow fashion retailer Witchery Australia for $172 million. Country Road shares were in a trading halt after last trading at $3.24. The big miners and the four major banks ...

ASIC winds up unregistered managed investment scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... belonged to investors in Master Fund and 13 other schemes not registered with ASIC. ASIC had that money returned to Australia for the benefit of investors, including almost US$1 million for investors in Master Fund. ASIC is taking civil penalty action ...

Market solutions favoured in OTC derivative reform

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... comply with G20 commitments following the GFC. In attempting to increase the use of centralised infrastructure in Australia for OTC derivatives trading, The Council of Financial Regulators recommended development of a legislative framework that allows ...

Negative gearing property distortions here to stay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... affordability problem in Australia being amongst the worst in the western world. But Saul Eslake, chief economist in Australia for the Bank of America and long time observer of the housing market in Australia, has said numerous times that the broader ...

Macquarie outlook mixed, annuities solid

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... value were down 61% in Australia and 4% in Asia for the same period. IPOs by value were down 48% in Asia and 87% in Australia for calendar year 2011 compared with 2010," said Moore. However, Macquarie's three annuity-style businesses - Macquarie Funds ...

Super assets soar with 17% annual growth rate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... risk within our increasingly precarious financial systems," said Graeme Miller, director of investment services, Australia for Towers Watson. "At the same time, risk management processes have evolved somewhat to factor in more qualitative measures. However ...

Australia Day honours for industry leaders

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... involvement in the development of the ASX Shares settlement system, the development of the Master Custody system in Australia for Super funds and later the Founder in 1994 of the Australian Custodial Services Association. Fergus Ryan was honoured with ...

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank buys Bank of Cyprus Australia

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has acquired 100% of the Bank of Cyprus Australia for $130 million with a $120 million share placement to selected institutional investors also underway. Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BEN) reached agreement with the Bank of Cyprus ...

Super funds evolve towards direct property: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... property funds management, said in a media briefing that AMP has a fairly optimistic view of direct real estate in Australia for 2012 with returns predicted of around 8.5 - 9.5%. When asked whether more super funds would invest in direct property, Judd ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... resources news, Atlas Iron has bought Gondwana Resources' 90 per cent stake in the Corunna Downs project in Western Australia for $2.1 million in cash. Atlas shares were 0.5 cents, or 0.16 per cent, lower at $3.16. In other news, Tiger Airways has been ...