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Unlicensed adviser charged

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... of providing financial services without a licence and placed on a two year good behaviour bond after an Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) investigation. Tivay was convicted in the Sydney District Court following an ASIC inquiry that ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... previous month. The unemployment rate in the Eurozone was unchanged at 7.3 percent in June. Today in Australia, the TD Securities inflation expectations report, the AIG's performance of manufacturing index and the RBA commodity price index are due for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index for July is released. So to the Securities/Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for July and the Reserve Bank of Australia commodity price index for July. Australian shares ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... The September share price index futures contract was up 64 points to 4958 on a volume of 11,061 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the positive gains in London and the US gave the market a kick start. "We started ...

More Fed pump-priming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... announced that an extension of its two emergency lending programs -- the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) and the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) - to the end of January 2009. The Fed also announced the introduction of a US$ 25 billion 84-day ...

ASIC bans unlicensed Westpoint adviser

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned Gold Coast based, Russell Sheppard from providing financial services for eight years after the regulator found he provided unlicensed advice on Westpoint products. The regulator found ...

Islamic funds zone in on Malaysia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... the seas to Malaysia, which recently approved three international financial firms to set up shop in the country. The Securities Commission (SC) has approved the applications of Kuwait Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad, DBS Asset Management Ltd and CIMB-Principal ...

Some Needed Good News

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... will raise US$8.5 billion in a common equity offering after writing off US$5.7 billion due to a sale of asset-backed securities. Similarly, the Case-Shiller Home Price index dropped by a record 15.8 percent in the year to May, following a 15.2 percent ...

Vivid signs on Financial Simplicity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... of the trade processes of the firm's clients - allowing the recording of individual client preferences, underlying securities, and tax optimisation among other functions. "[Enterprise edition] will give us a scalable business model to work with. It will ...

UBS faces multi-billion lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
UBS Securities and UBS Financial Services in the US are embroiled in a multi-billion dollar fraud lawsuit filed by the New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo's lawsuit charges UBS with falsely selling and marketing auction rate securities ...