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Government pumps $500m into Members Equity

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... invested $500 million into its AAA- rated Super Members Home Loans (SMHL) Securitisation Fund Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS). MEB's chief financial officer Nicholas Vamvakas said the AOFM elected SMHL's A1 and A2 Bonds as part of its initial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... December share price index futures contract was 110 points higher at 3,958 on a volume of 16,085 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the market saw Wall Street's overnight performance as "workmanlike" after its ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... simultaneously request competitive two-way markets from 10 major price makers in over 700 Australian and New Zealand debt securities. The group's dealer-to-dealer market opened only last year and processes government and semigovernment securities and ...

New rules for short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... The arrangement means traders must have a system in place to record whether a sell order from a client is a sale of securities they already own (long), covered short sale or a covered short sale which is exempt from the ban (exempt short) daily. Clients ...

FIIG opens term deposit site

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Investors can make better informed decisions about their cash investments after FIIG Securities opened a term deposit comparison website. Termdeposit.com.au can find the best term deposit rate from more than 40 providers, allowing people to invest directly ...

Macq launches EM infrastructure fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... launched an emerging markets infrastructure fund aimed at retail investors. The Macquarie Emerging Markets Infrastructure Securities Fund, which was open to investors a few weeks ago, is headed by co portfolio managers Dave Dali and Jonathan Ong. It ...

I'll have what she's having

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... Roundtable requested that TARP be expanded to include coverage not only of banks, but also insurers, auto companies, securities dealers and institutions controlled by foreign companies and banks. The Financial Services Roundtable is a public policy trade ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... the December share price index futures contract was 109 points lower at 4,228, on a volume of 10,581 contracts. Aequs Securities institutional dealer Ric Klusman said a weak night on American indices and large falls in commodity prices were adversely ...

India fund opens to unlisted assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... arrangement with Kotak Mahindra (UK) to invest in Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE) listed securities remains unchanged. John Pereira, India Equities Fund Limited founder and managing director, said the addition of unlisted ...

Hedge funds slam ban extension

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The hedge fund industry has condemned the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) decision to extend the ban on short selling on non-financial stocks, declaring it will have "severe and immutable long-term effects". ASIC extended the ...