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Bennelong and Legg Mason get ratings boosts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... and aims to provide a consistent income stream for retirees by investing in A-REIT, utility, infrastructure and like securities listed on the ASX. "Zenith views the product philosophy and resultant fund structure favourably, as it avoids the inherent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... backpedalled 25 cents to $23.41 and Westpac was off 11 cents at $20.37. National turnover at 1201 AEST was 970.7 million securities changing hands for $2.3 billion. Some 419 stocks were trading higher, 401 were lower and 337 steady.

CBA in takeover bid for Count Financial

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... surprise trading halt this morning before the news. Count Financial share volumes surged yesterday on the Australian Securities Exchange with 341,486 shares changing hands as it delivered its full-year results - more than five times Friday's volume of ...

Australian Capital Reserve directors plead guilty

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... charge of making false statements in the company's accounts and prospectus in a case brought forward by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC). A third Australian Capital Reserve (ACR) director, Steven Martin, had pleaded guilty to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... ounce, down $21.82 from Monday's local close of $US1,817.88 per ounce. National turnover at 1210 AEST was 1.23 billion securities changing hands for $1.94 billion. Some 574 stocks were up, 290 were trading down and 332 were steady.

FOFA: Opt-in obligations, ASIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... significant new impost for advisers who are in regular contact with their clients," Shorten said. The reach of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will also extend further into the advice industry with the Government strengthening ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... the September share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 4,181, with 25,307 contracts traded. Patersons Securities senior adviser Marcus Padley said the market's smaller gains at noon were a lacklustre response to the strong lead from Wall ...

US S&P president replaced

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... been reports that The U.S. Justice Department is investigating both S&P and Moody's over ratings of mortgage-backed securities. Standard & Poor's is the leading credit ratings company and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, which has approximately ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... the next two years). The Fed could enforce these interest-rate ceilings by committing to make unlimited purchases of securities up to two years from maturity at prices consistent with the targeted yields." Option 4. "...use its existing authority to ...

Vanguard appoints senior portfolio manager, fixed income

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... of Vanguard's taxable bond group. Wright-Casparius will co-manage the US$36.8 billion Vanguard Inflation-Protected Securities Fund with fellow Vanguard principal John Hollyer. The fund invests in bonds with the principal adjusted quarterly to reflect ...