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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
The Australian stock market was up at noon, with the major miners driving the local bourse higher. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 67.7 points or 1.23 per cent higher at 5570.6, while the broader All Ordinaries gained 63.3 points or 1.14 ...

Short selling faces revamp

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
Rules surrounding short selling in Australia look set to undergo a major overhaul following revelation that the crucial practice is effectively unregulated. The key problem, according to Senator Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law ...

Perpetual raises death benefits

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
Perpetual has upgraded its WealthFocus platform enabling advisers to automate the processing of a type of death benefit called 'anti-detriment payments', with the end result of a bigger lump sum payment for the benefit recipient. An anti-detriment payment ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Australian stocks were 2.8 per cent lower at noon on a shortened trading day as big falls in the price of oil and gold and weaker industrial metal prices hammered resources stocks. The financials sector also was weaker after speculation that top-three ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
The Australian share market was down almost 1.5 per cent at noon, led by financial stocks weighed by problems in credit markets. An unexpected fall in the unemployment rate also influenced the fall, on fears that interest rates may increase again. At ...

Baring Asia pumps $95m in green fuel

Green energy is the new black in private equity after Baring Asia injected $95 million into an energy investment company in China, home to the third largest reservoir of coalbed methane, an alternative fuel source. Baring Private Equity Asia, which ...

Listed cos fail compliance test

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
A higher number of ASX-listed company directors have failed to comply with share trading rules today compared to four years ago, raising questions on the prevalence of insider trading and the influence of the country's regulators. The number of top ...

Largest US pension fund SIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Christianna Wood, senior investment officer, global equity of US pension fund giant CalPERS, has jumped ship to take up the position of chief executive of hedge fund sponsor, Capital Z Asset Management. Wood will leave CalPERS in mid-February, and Eric ...

Perpetual upgrades unit registry systems

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Perpetual is the first client to implement consulting firm Bravura's wrap application and use Sonata Business Services - an end-to-end business solution delivering enterprise workflow management and document imaging across the fund manager's back office. ...

Mercer expands RI team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
Mercer has appointed six responsible investment specialists to its responsible investment consulting division citing growing demand for the sector. Jordan Berger, Kelly Gauthier, Susanna Jacobson, Eric Gelfgren, Xinting Jia and Megumi Terayama join ...