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Asia specialists join Premium China

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... years experience in finance and fund management. She has previously worked for Challenger First Pacific, Bell Potter Securities and HFA Asset Management. George Fattal, once a financial planner at Westpac and development manager at Professional Investment ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... Financial Services Symposium, Jane Diplock AO, chairman of the IOSCO executive committee and chair of the New Zealand Securities Commission, said we can't rebuild the system unless we rethink our approach to it. "We used to think of the financial system ...

Macquarie Funds remove performance fee

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
Macquarie Funds Group has made drastic changes to the fees charged by its International Infrastructure Securities fund, including the removal of the performance fees charged by the manager. "We have moved to simplify the fund by removing the performance ...

ASIC brings charges against Opes Prime chief

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... chief executive and director, Lirim (Laurie) Emini, has pleaded not guilty to 26 charges brought on by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Now committed to stand trial, Emini, 47, is facing 22 charges relating to ASIC charges ...

Century Funds manager bid fails

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... unitholders late last year, with Century having focused on the trust's poor performance and the involvement of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) attempt to remove Opus' Financial Services licence in August 2010. "Under law the ...

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... assets as: cash, balances held with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), and Commonwealth Government and semi-government securities - otherwise known as bonds. As yet APRA has not defined any assets that qualify for level two. APRA is now assessing the ...

ASIC bans former Storm adviser

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Drummond, has been banned from providing financial services for four years following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Drummond was found guilty of making false and misleading statements and provided inappropriate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... 24, the March share price index futures contract was nine points lower at 4,837 with 26,265 contracts traded. Cameron Securities client adviser Adrian Leppinus said a big fall on the local market on Tuesday prompted the large decline in the US and helped ...

J.P. Morgan wins $1.5bn custody mandate

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
J.P. Morgan Treasury & Securities Services (TSS) is the new custodian and administration provider of corporate super fund City Super. Bryan Gray, head of treasury & securities services sales and client management said the new $1.5 billion mandate further ...

Bloomberg opens doors to Islamic finance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... that the Islamic markets are taking steps to increase sophistication, the Malaysian, Singaporean, Philippine and Thai securities exchanges announced plans to develop a common technology framework that is expected to go live by the end of this year.