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EISS appoints Mercer as consultant

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... fund's fixed interest investments have also gone back to basics, with EISS now solely investing in government guaranteed securities and in pure cash. The fund previously had exposure to enhanced cash investments, which were affected by market volatility ...

ASIC takes MFS Group to court

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... MFS Group and its three subsidiaries for alleged transactions that breached responsible entity laws. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) alleges that officers in MFS Investment Management caused the Premium Income Fund to transfer ...

Under 30s shine in Future Leaders Awards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Julia Feher from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) won this year's IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Awards for her paper recommending a "pay for use" financial planning business model. The IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Awards program ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after heavy losses on Wall Street on Friday amongst both securities and commodities. At 0728 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 118 points lower at 4,506. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... Exchange, the December share price index contract gained 71 points to 4632, on a volume of 23,272 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist, Michael Heffernan said the market was ebbing and flowing upwards in a beautiful fashion. ...

Dimensional turns to value stocks in emerging markets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... where the local group's global equity funds fed into it US mutual fund pools. "By investing directly in the underlying securities, we now have greater flexible to design strategies that maximise the benefits of our value-adding approach in emerging markets," ...

Platinum Capital appoints chairman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... following the conclusion of the firm's AGM. Platinum Capital is a closed end investment company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Four pillars of a good hedge fund: Ashton

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... managers, lessons could also be learned and applied in an Australian context. "First you have to register with the SEC [US Securities and Exchange Commission]... you need to disclose your positions to them on a quarterly basis and they monitor what you're ...

Premium eyes more practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... construction to the day to day service offering of the business," he said. This follows a submission from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services that found ...

UBS property fund mgrs exit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
Andrew McGrath and David Curtis, co-portfolio managers of Australian-listed property securities at UBS Global Asset Management have resigned. Jakov Males, director and senior portfolio manager (Australian equities) will take over their portfolios mid-November. ...