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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... group of power generators that failed a WWF scorecard on carbon reduction performance. Ben Polkinghorne from Patersons Securities said lower commodity prices had affected the resources sector. "Commodities stocks have been hit hard recently, particularly ...

ASIC completes unlisted asset guide

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) finalised its guidelines to improve disclosure in unlisted mortgage and unlisted property schemes which represent $70 billion in funds under management (FUM). In the finalised document, ASIC ...

Hedge fund to invest $500m into carbon capture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... Och-Ziff is investing $500 million in carbon capture projects to create tradable greenhouse gas reduction abatement securities. The investment projects will focus on adaptive technology that will be attached to smokestacks of utility companies and high ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... said that they've outperformed partly because of an early call to bail out of listed property trusts and credit-type securities two years ago. "We were a little bit early [timing-wise] but at the time, we could see that there was a lot of leverage appearing ...

BNP Paribas wins six years with AMP

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
BNP Paribas Securities Services has won a six year custody and fund administration services mandate with AMP Ltd. BNP Paribas yesterday confirmed the extension of the AMP contract until 2014. AMP however is not a new client of BNP Paribas, which has ...

AustralianSuper sticks with securities lending

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
AustralianSuper has reviewed its securities lending protocols and decided to continue the practice. "AustralianSuper, similar to most super funds, employs a range of short and long-selling strategies in order to maximise investment returns to members," ...

Macquarie hires ex-GSBJW COO

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... Macquarie Funds Group appointed has appointed Irene Deutsch, ex chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs JB Were's securities division, to Australian head of retail distribution in its retail structured products division. Deutsch re-joined Macquarie ...

Pengana wins ex-Rubicon investors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... Pengana's Asia Special Events Fund employs an event-driven investment strategy that exploits the mispricing of company securities involved in events such as mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, capital management initiatives, and capital ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... business indicators for the June quarter. The Reserve Bank of Australia releases its commodity price index for August. TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute release their inflation gauge, and the Australian Industry Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

Austock curbs expansion plans

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... major restructure that began early this calendar year. Besides withdrawing from the US market, the group has closed its securities business in Brisbane, reduced overhead costs and reshuffled internal staff. "These initiatives and others identified and ...