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US unlikely to follow EU short selling ban

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... France, Italy, Spain and Belgium. Critics believe this financial stock short selling ban indirectly destroyed confidence in Dexia that lead to the need for taxpayer-funded bail-out of the French-Belgium bank Dexia. Dexia specialised in lending money ...

Ausbil Dexia assures investors following European bailout

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
Ausbil Dexia, the Australian equities specialist partly owned by the asset management arm of troubled European bank the Dexia Group, has moved to reassure investors following news of the bank's bailout in Europe. In a statement, chief executive officer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... eurozone banks. Adding to the sense of optimism on Tuesday was a decision by France, Belgium and Luxembourg to bail out Dexia bank, the first lender to be dragged under by the European debt crisis. Tokyo closed 1.95 per cent higher, or 168.06 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... Franco-German pledge to shore up European banks in news that coincided with a cross-border dismantling of troubled lender Dexia. At closing on Monday, London's FTSE 100 index added 1.80 per cent at 5,399 points. In Frankfurt, the DAX rallied 3.02 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... per cent. Moody's said it believed Britain's government was now more likely to allow smaller banks to fail if necessary. Dexia, the teetering Franco-Belgian bank set to be split up and part-nationalised, was downgraded one notch by Standard & Poor's ...

The good, the bad and the whatever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... for a shave. And for a trifecta, Standard & Poor's was not to be outdone. It snipped the ratings of the core components of Dexia S.A. -- Dexia Credit Local, Dexia Bank, and Dexia Banque Internationale a Luxembourg - "which together represent over 90% ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... seemed to confirm reports the European Union was working on such a plan to tame a crisis which claimed its first victim, Dexia bank, this week. The news cheered markets which have fallen heavily on deepening gloom that the EU could come up with a plan ...

Mercer awards three new mandates worth nearly $1 billion

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... interest". The Mercer Australian Core Portfolio now has five managers including Intrinsic, Perennial, Tyndall, Alleron and Ausbil Dexia. Quantitative asset managers Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership won the right to rule a $150 million mandate ...

van Eyk appoints head of ratings

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... shifting his focus towards strategic asset allocation. A former senior investment analyst at Colonial First State, Ausbil Dexia and JP Morgan, Olsen has been with van Eyk since January, rating equity managers in Australia and New Zealand. Olsen is now ...

RBC Dexia opens Thailand for Aberdeen

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
RBC Dexia Investor Services has opened its pan-Asian transfer agency platform in Thailand, meaning fund orders that once were faxed are now automated. The global service provider has opened its platform specifically for investment management client ...