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ASF appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... with the Australian Office of Financial Management's market intervention by purchasing residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS). Fuller said the ASF wants to ramp up its engagement with members, industry and policy makers to pave the way for securitisation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... launch of a new effort by the Federal Reserve and Treasury to boost consumer lending with $US200 billion to buy up securities linked to various types of loans and credit cards. But some said Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments in Congress ...

AMP holds LPT strategy, wins mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Global property securities fund manager, AMP Capital Redding Investors isn't changing its listed property strategies and continues to win mandates while the listed property sector continues to under-perform. Kim Redding, AMP Capital Redding Investors ...

Return of the hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... cent for the month and more than seven per cent over the last year. This performance locally follows the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) extending the ban of covered short selling on financial stocks until March. But in September ...

I have been dead wrong: Buffett

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... and gloom for Buffett and Co. "On the plus side last year, we made purchases totaling $14.5 billion in fixed-income securities issued by Wrigley, Goldman Sachs and General Electric. We very much like these commitments, which carry high current yields ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... Industry Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI) for February, TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute's Inflation Gauge for February, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) business indicators ...

Invest in debt, but carefully

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... than 10 per cent," said Perry. Debt funds need to be more diversified than the index and contain higher quality bond securities within them, he added. Then there are currency factors to consider following the Australian dollar's 30 per cent depreciation ...

Adviser charged for contempt of court

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... Matthews. These included permanently preventing him from undertaking the business of advising other individuals about securities or dealing in securities except as otherwise permitted by the then Corporations Law. ASIC commenced contempt of court proceedings ...

Plan B buys Strategic

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Australian Securities Exchange-listed Plan B Group has acquired a 62 per cent stake in boutique advisory firm, Strategic Financial Management. Plan B's acquisition of Strategic will see it control a 62 per cent interest in the Melbourne-based company ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was up 24 points to 3,340 on a volume of 12,965 contracts. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klussman said that despite the Dow Jones' 250 point gain overnight, the Australian market was ...