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Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... levels consistent with the dual mandate, the Committee decided today to extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities. The Committee intends to purchase, by the end of June 2012, $400 billion of Treasury securities with remaining maturities ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... turnover was 829.9 million shares changing hands for $2.1 billion, with about one in three stocks falling. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said a late fall on Wall Street overnight, leaving the Dow Jones index ...

ASIC obtains Fed Court order to preserve funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... operates on the cityindexmutual.com website by City Index Australasia and director, Blair Jason Travers. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) sought to restrict both parties from moving any invested cash within the fund after it ...

ISN submission targets advice requirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... already come some way to address the issue with the Best Interest Duty proposal and the move to increase the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) powers.

JP Morgan head Perry resigns

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
Jane Perry, JP Morgan's head of Worldwide Securities Services, Australia & New Zealand, will leave the firm this year to pursue new opportunities in the local market. Her replacement has already been appointed. Perry has been in the role since November ...

Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... can rotate between different asset classes, get exposure between high yield bonds, to leveraged loans, asset backed securities and pick the best sector. "Quite often these are hedge fund groups that can do this but the trick is to get the hedge fund ...

UBS $2bn rogue trader in custody

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... Adoboli was a director, is believed to handle trades for clients and help them to speculate or hedge the performance of securities. Analysts had forecast UBS net profits of about SFr1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) for the quarter, but are now revising their ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... per cent, at 4,077.3 while the broader All Ordinaries index rose 67.3 points, or 1.65 per cent, to 4,157.7. Cameron Securities client adviser Adrian Leppinus said trading volumes had dropped off significantly since a surge in value at the open, with ...

Perpetual outsources central data hub

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... two week proof of concept test which assessed the platforms control around its data management, its ability to manage securities, pricing and the processing of positions and transactions. "Cadis has improved our ownership and management of our data," ...

JP Morgan appoints head of transition management

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
JP Morgan Treasury & Securities Services has appointed a new head of transition management Australia and New Zealand, as part of the bank's growing financing & markets products division in Asia Pacific. Patrick Fanning has been appointed to the role ...