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ASIC catches Camelot Derivatives

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Melbourne-based derivatives dealer, Camelot Derivatives (Camelot) and its sole director, Neil Walter King, consent to interim injunctions brought by Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC). Camelot is a dealing company specialising ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving generally positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all key Wall Street indices higher, although gold was flat and oil was lower. Copper hit a record high. On the ASX 24 at 0710 AEDT, the March share price ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
It's good in so far as it's bad. For those like me who logged on over the weekend hoping to glean clarity on America's future, the latest non-farm payrolls report outing provided none. Yes, Virginia, both the bulls and the bears would be claiming, "I ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market was higher at noon on materials, while insurers made gains following the smaller than expected impact of Cyclone Yasi. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 9.7 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 4,806.2, while the ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Economic uncertainty in the Middle East following uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt show how intertwined the global economy is with geopolitics, making more volatility the only certainty. First the background. According to a briefing note put out yesterday ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
A leading fund manager argues that many investors are too pessimistic about the US and too optimistic about other markets, particularly China. Speaking at a lunch briefing yesterday, Martin Conlon, head of Australian equities at Schroder Investment ...

Zurich poaches IUS Life team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
For three years, Zurich's Group Risk business in Australia has stayed relatively below the radar. That will now change after the insurer scored a hiring coup - successfully recruiting the key team of rival IUS Life, including general manager, Phil Collins. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
The Australian market is receiving broadly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with key equities indices higher in both the US and Europe, along with commodities. On the ASX 24 at 0831 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
After early gains, the Australian share market had fallen into negative territory by noon, dragged lower by the resources sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 33.2 points lower, by 0.69 per cent, at 4,750.5 points, while the broader ...

Related party asset exposures pose conflict: report

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
In its Annual Superannuation Bulletin this year, APRA reports on the most significant asset exposures of super funds, with some obvious, and not so obvious, findings on where potential conflicts of interest could arise. According to the report, retail ...