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NAB in talks to buy ABN AMRO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... investment banking and wholesale banking businesses in Australia and New Zealand. A NAB statement released on the Australian Securities Exchange said, although the transaction is not certain, any potential deal would require a due diligence process and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... September share price index futures contract fell 67 points to 4,927 on a total volume of 10,437 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the market delivered what would have been expected after a two per cent fall in ...

Barclays emits carbon trading ETN

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... demand for hard and soft commodities. The iPath ETNs have a 30 year maturity and are unsecured, unsubordinated debt securities which are issued by the bank and linked to the performance of a market index.

ASIC bans three Westpoint planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned three more financial planners involved in misleading clients on Westpoint products from providing financial services. The regulator banned New South Wales based Timothy Harrison from ...

Investors influence credit ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... products. The surveyed showed that whilst 47 percent were in favour of the current system, the concern is that not all AAA securities are created equal. "We feel that a different rating scale is an essential aid to trustees and fiduciaries, to help them ...

Kinloch appoints MacarthurCook

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... MacarthurCook Investment Managers Limited has been appointed investment manager for the new Kinloch Emerging Markets Property Securities Fund based in New Zealand. According to MacarthurCook, the new offering is a registered unlisted open ended fund ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... September share price index futures contract was up 49 points to 5010 on a total volume of 14,883 contracts. Aequs Securities dealer Ric Klusman said while the market was up, it was still soft and tender this afternoon. "The market wasn't doing badly ...

Aust and HK strengthen retail ties

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... to investors in each other's markets following ASIC's signing of a mutual recognition declaration with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). For the first time, Australian managed investment schemes will be available to investors in ...

Challenger recycles capital

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Colony Capital. In August 2007 The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co paid $208 million for 40 million shares in Challenger, at $5.20 a share. At the same time Colony Capital, a US investment ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... September share price index futures contract was down 72 points to 5,002 on a total volume of 6,658 contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said there was a war of attrition taking place in the local market. "Every second ...