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Vanguard launches ETFs in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... Index-based ETFs deliver all of the diversification and low cost characteristics of indexed investments coupled with the trading flexibility, liquidity and transparency of shares. With current investment markets experiencing significant volatility and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... gained 22.6 points, or 0.67 per cent, to 3408.8. On the Sydney Futures Exchange the June share price index contract was trading up one point at 3479 on a volume of 20,174. The March contract, which expired at noon on Thursday, closed five points lower ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... Wall Street an offer it could not refuse - 1.25 trillion freshly minted greenbacks. After heading south for most of the trading session, the S&P 500 changed direction and headed for a more than 2 per cent gain at the closing after a little birdy told ...

BUSS(Q) buys Aussie equities

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... past few months, but will seriously look at getting into the equities game in April. "If we take for example, the major trading banks - which are a big part of the Aussie index, we expect at these current prices to get frank dividends of around 10 per ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... weighting in the United States, where it had little or no exposure before, and buy large cap stocks as long term plays, not as trading opportunities. Hall pointed out the fund has a strong track record of recovering absolute losses in previous downturns ...

US pensions fight for trust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... According to the ten funds, the principles emphasise the need for disclosure of financial activity - including security trading, participant accounting, credit rating activity and counterparty exposure. It also calls for an end to "forum" shopping by ...

FIX adoption critical to growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... hamper operation and cost efficiencies in the long run, says an industry expert. Michael Corcoran, ITG head of sales and trading in Australia and a speaker at this week's FIX Protocol Electronic Trading conference, said a poll conducted at the event ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... Group 2009 Annual Conference will be held. On Thursday, the Australian stock market closed slightly lower in mostly flat trading as Australia's unemployment rate hit a four-year high. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 8.9 points, or 0.27 per cent lower ...

BT revamps wrap for equities

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
BT Financial Group is heeding its advisers' calls for more efficient equities trading and recently unveiled a three-year program to rework the BT Wrap platform. The three year program, which begins next Monday, will include the introduction of bulk ...

iShares adds three

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... funds outflow from traditional managed funds totalled US$204.7 billion. The new products take iShares' ETFs from 16 to 19 trading on the ASX.