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Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... The pension fund's Alternative Investment Management Program reckons expansion capital, venture capital, distressed securities, special situations or corporate restructuring are alternative assets.

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... friend. The inflation premium - measured as the difference between the yield on US 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and the regular US 10-year Treasury bond yield -- has eased slightly after a sharp rise towards the closing months of last ...

NZ Super appoints Elementum Advisors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... New Zealand Superannuation have appointed Elementum Advisors to manage a $140 million portfolio of catastrophe-linked securities. The initial size of the mandate will be $140 million million with potential to increase to $282 million. Catastrophe-linked ...

Sec lending to split from custody

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
The multi-million dollar securities lending market in Australia could be in for a shakeup as super funds consider separating their custodial services from securities lending and cash collateral management. Giselle Awad, senior vice president business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index for January will be released. The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for January and the ANZ job advertisements survey for January are due. The Australian ...

Westpac unveils new trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... Westpac has launched a new online trading platform for its 250,000 broking customers. James Staltari, the head of Westpac Securities, said the new website is called Westpac Online Investing, and includes an improved range of equity and investment services ...

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney appoints Aus chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has appointed former managing director of Commonwealth Securities (CommSec), Matthew Comyn, as chief executive of its Australian wealth management business. Comyn starts his role in the final week of February at a time when ...

The audacity of Mark Bouris and Ray Miles

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... proposal' paper obtained by Financial Standard, Bouris, under his companies Yellow Brick Road and Yellow Brick Road Securities, and Miles, under his new group Fortnum Financial Planners, said they are looking for an investment platform superior to existing ...

One down, more to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, the Commercial Paper Funding Facility, the Primary Dealer Credit Facility, and the Term Securities Lending Facility on February 1, as previously announced. In addition, the temporary liquidity swap arrangements between ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was 43 points lower at 4,611 on volume of 20,627 contracts. Cameron Securities client adviser Adrian Leppinus said several factors had combined to prompt the sell-off. "It's a multi-stage attack ...