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ASIC charts margin lending requirements

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... training conditions for financial advisers and requirements for firms dealing in margin lending products. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released the Consultation Paper 108 Margin lending: training of financial advisers and ...

MacarthurCook CEO resigns

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... Craig Dunstan, founder and managing director of MacarthurCook, has resigned following the firm's acquisition by AIMS Securities Holdings. Dunstan resigned yesterday, and sold all of his shares not subject to escrow to AIMS under the bid. Dunstan founded ...

FICA names chair

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... is an executive director at the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) - formerly the International Banks & Securities Association for eight years. He takes over from Richard Gilbert, who is retiring as the chief executive at the Investment ...

ASIC bans Firepower adviser

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... was a sole director of Axis International Management from November 2001 and an authorized representative of Sagecorp Securities between December 2003 and December 2006. Ward can appeal ASIC's decision. ASIC started civil proceedings in the Federal Court ...

Austock closes high yield fund

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... Poor's it was closing the fund after a recent rise in redemption requests had increased the fund's exposure to illiquid securities. Austock Asset Management also noted the fund's ability to attract new investors would be low given its recent performance. ...

CS appoints head of asset management Aus

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... investments for Australia and New Zealand. He also worked in senior institutional client management roles in Bank of America Securities in New York and Merrill Lynch in Australia, US and Europe. Aside from this new role, Sedillo is also head of distribution ...

REST deploys $225m in mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... Putnam investments has come from REST's cashflow. "These investments continue our program of targeting structured credit securities and present the prospect for attractive, equity-like returns for our members over a 3 to 5 year investment timeframe. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... was 40 points lower at 3,741 on a volume of 9,808 contracts. "It's been a disappointing start to the week," Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said. "The weakness is in the oil and resources sectors... and the rest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... contract was seven points lower at 3,774. In economic news on Monday, the ANZ job advertisements survey and the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute inflation gauge, both for June, are due. In equities news, an international symposium on Islamic banking ...

AFA renews call to restrict 'financial adviser' term

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... executive of the AFA, said the term 'financial adviser' needs to be restricted to those who are regulated by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and abide by the Corporations Act. "There should be transparency around the term and ...