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Austock closes high yield fund

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
Austock Asset Management has been forced to close the High Yield fund after a flurry of redemption requests from investors. The firm told Standard & Poor's it was closing the fund after a recent rise in redemption requests had increased the fund's exposure ...

Premium Investors outlines capital options

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
The Premium Investors board has put forward three resolutions including amending the firm's constitution and a further on-market buy back scheme to deal with capital management issues. The first proposal is to carry on with an off-market buy-back which ...

Matrix adds ETFs to APL

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
Matrix Planning Solutions has added the Aurora Sandringham Dividend Trust, a number of iShares exchange traded funds (ETFs) and two State Street SPDR ETFs to the group's approved product list. The group's approved product list will now include the State ...

ASIC flags end-of-year signposts

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
The financial services watchdog ASIC is calling on listed financial services companies to provide more disclosure on their 'going concern' assumptions, asset valuations and hedging arrangements when they file their 30 June 2009 financial reports. Following ...

Dixon action on Premium gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Alan Dixon, Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services chief executive, said the firm's call to change how Premium Investors operates has the support of many of the listed investment company's shareholders. The financial planning firm requested a general ...

Aussies cling to shares: ASX

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Australians are still strong believers in equities investments with 41 per cent of the country's' adult population owning direct or indirect shares, according to latest data from the ASX. The Australian Share Ownership Study by the Australian Securities ...

GFC highlights five-year outperformers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
In 2004, Greece held the Olympic Games, Coldplay's Clocks was on top of the charts and, if you invested $1,000 in Perennial, Prime Value or Fidelity's Australian equities fund, that same capital would be worth over $1,700 today. Rainmaker Information ...

Asian fund taps Dixon for cap raising

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
The ASX-listed Asian Masters Fund has approached financial planning firm Dixon Advisory & Superannuation Services for a capital raising. An ASX statement noted the deal will be conducted through an issue of ordinary shares at an issue price of $1.00 ...

CBA on Storm damage control

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has suspended repayments for Storm Financial loan holders to the end of August and said it will pay for the cost of legal and financial advice for its affected customers. Ralph Norris, chief executive at Commonwealth ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...