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ASX updates corporate governance guidelines

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
The Australian Securities Exchange Corporate Governance Council today released its first update to the ASX's Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations since 2003. To be launched officially this afternoon by Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer ...

Standardise sustainability reporting: Finsia

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... standards-based framework for sustainability risk reporting, to be championed by a body like the Australian Securities Exchange or the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

CFDs move from off-market to exchange

With the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) planning to open a contracts for difference (CFDs) exchange in two month's time, investment house ABN AMRO gets in first with the launch of its own branded listed CFDs. The group has today listed around ...

Good times keep rolling for ASX funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... acquisition activity underpinned the fourth consecutive year of above-20 per cent returns for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), with the market benchmark posting a heady 29.2 per cent, said Morningstar. The returns record has been so favorable ...

Macq steaks $700m fund

... class overseas." Macquarie Pastoral hopes to raise $1.16 billion (US$1 billion) and list on the Australian Securities Exchange in five to eight years' time. Michelle Baltazar

Another stellar year for the index

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... 2005. Jason Hill, director of Standard & Poor's Index Services Australia who partners with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to construct the index, said a further highlight was the index "breaking through the symbolic 6,000 level on 22 February ...

Most finance executives support ESG reporting

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
... reporting based on the UN ESG principles. Reflecting these results, nearly 90 per cent agreed the Australian Securities Exchange or the Australian Securities and Investments Commission should provide some form of guidance in this reporting. Sixty per ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... to 6,325. Today, the New South Wales state budget is released and broker Wilson HTM lists on the Australian Securities Exchange. OceanaGold Corporation and Uramet Minerals Limited also both list on the ASX. Australian stocks continued their upward procession ...

CFD traders to reach 50,000

... Investment Trends has released its 2007 Contracts For Difference (CFD) Report, an online survey of Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) investors and online brokers that attracted over 10,000 participants. Among the research highlights were that nearly ...

Public companies should learn from private equity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... said growing influence of private equity will weaken the position of public companies and even the Australian Securities Exchange will "come under real pressure". To respond, public companies will have to manage themselves more actively and work their ...