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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... financial sector offset profit-taking in other stocks after the benchmark's recent rally to 18-month highs. Wells Fargo Securities raised its rating on large-cap US banks on Tuesday, citing more clarity on asset-quality trends, and this lifted the banking ...

Boutique small cap backer fills bank funding gap

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... director of ABN AMRO Bank, and Hynd, who previously worked across small cap investments at Ernst & Young and Paterson Securities. The firm is still identifying a number of opportunities within the small cap market despite the small cap market index rebounding ...

Macquarie exec joins DNR

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... strategic alliances for the firm. He previously worked in a number of senior regional and global roles in Macquarie's securities and funds management businesses. He worked in Macquarie's equity derivatives business in Sydney, then moved to Hong Kong ...

Challenger property co-portfolio fund manager departs

S&P RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
John White, co-portfolio manager of Challenger Property Securities Funds, has left the firm for undisclosed reasons. John Longo, his co-portfolio manager for eight years, will take over as portfolio manager. "It's unlikely that John White will be replaced. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... report for the February quarter. The Reserve Bank of Australia publishes its index of commodity prices for March. The TD Securities-Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for March is due, as is the Australian Industry Group-PricewaterhouseCoopers performance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 11 points lower at 4,915, on volume of 9,926 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said the major financial stocks were lower on profit-taking. "Overall ...

SEC launches derivatives review

SEC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing the use of derivatives by mutual funds, exchange traded funds and investment firms. SEC staff will explore a number of issues relating to the investment strategy and the regulations imposed ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... would extend its "emergency collateral" program beyond 2010. This measure - which lowered the ratings threshold of securities that the ECB will accept as collateral from A- to BBB- -- became effective on October 2008 and was scheduled to expire by the ...

ASIC ramps up market surveillance

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... Federal Government's decision in August 2009 that ASIC assume the market surveillance function from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). As a result, monitoring of real time trading on Australia's domestic licensed markets will be assumed by ASIC ...

Perennial gains intl insto mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... The fund manager uses a bottom-up, index unaware stock picking strategy and is targeting Asian and European property securities instead of US stocks. "The US is probably is looking pretty well valued to overvalued and we see more opportunities in Asia," ...