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China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... last year. However, the more immediate challenge, according to Qian Qimin, Shanghai-based analyst at Shenyin & Wanguo Securities is investor sentiment. He says after two years of unprecedented stock gains, many of China's investors may start locking-in ...

Deadly Trojan targets 400 banks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... and what that means is that the bad guy is sitting between your computer and the bank," said John McDonald, senior securities response manager at Symantec. "Although that's not new, it's a worry because of what it can do, which is basically diverting ...

BNY Mellon scores first NZ mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... within a global thematic framework, utilising a series of constantly assessed investment themes to identify sectors and securities that so far have offered positive returns potential. BNY Mellon was also awarded a $2 billion mandate by WA-based super ...

Russell adds Plato

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index as its benchmark. The fund targets almost 100 per cent market exposure to Australian securities with 130 per cent gross long and 30 per cent short exposure over time. Don Hamson, managing director at Plato Investment Group ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... intensified, and following another poor performance on Wall St. This morning, the monthly inflation gauge prepared by TD Securities-Melbourne Institute, had risen by 0.6 per cent in December, and by 3.7 per cent in the 12 months to December. The annual ...

Lehman Brothers banks on natural resources

... Glen Willis as vice chairman early this month. Since entering the Australian market with the acquisition of Grange Securities in March this year, Lehman Brothers Australia has hired 40 staff to the business. Michelle Baltazar

Great Southern branches outside agribusiness

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... traditional domain. Great Southern has launched an All Caps Australian Share Fund and a Domestic and Global Property Securities Fund, branching out from agricultural-based funds for the first time. Adam Smith Asset Management is the underlying manager ...

Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... write down of US$10 billion in the value of its holdings of sub-prime, collateralised debt obligations and related securities. The deal follows Citigroup recently agreeing to sell a $7.5 billion stake to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, according ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... Exchange, the December share price index contract was two points higher at 6648, on a volume of 5,503 contracts. Austock Securities senior client advisor, Michael Heffernan, said the banking sector was weighing on the market. "The banks aren't doing ...

Not much of a fix from the freeze

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... industry sponsors of the plan say might benefit. The great stumbling block is that investors in asset pools that own these securities need to agree to the rate resets. The mechanics and probability of this isn't well explained in the publicly available ...