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Pengana portfolio manager steps down

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
... group's listed property trusts along with Mark Thorpe-Apps, has resigned from his post with the Australian property securities team, and will leave the group at the end of September to relocate to Hong Kong. Pengana chief executive officer, Russell Pillemer ...

SEC hits fraudulent insurer with $790m penalty

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US equivalent to Australia's financial services regulator the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has ordered life insurer Prudential Equity Group (PEG) to pay $790 million (US$600 ...

DeAM chases alpha in fixed income

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... distributions that aims to withstand fluctuations in credit spreads." The fund will invest in Australian corporate securities, Australian high yield securities and cash and is benchmarked against the UBS Australian Bank Bill Index, targeting outperformance ...

RBC poaches BNP Paribas implementation manager

RBC Dexia Investor Services has poached a former BNP Paribas Securities Services manager as their new director of transitions. John Venardos, formerly business implementation manager with BNP Paribas, joined RBC Dexia at the beginning of August and ...

First Capital appoints new MD

... has appointed a former MFS manager to the role of managing director of its property financing business, First Capital Securities. Mark Phillips, former group manager of asset management and general manager of asset management with MFS, will step into ...

Scam targets ethnic community

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned investors to be wary of investment schemes targeted at specific communities after it acted to shut down a scam targeting the Australian Chinese community. ASIC investigations uncovered ...

After failed IPO, Snowy Hydro still top rated

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... dividend payments if necessary to maintain a certain credit profile. The rating affects approximately $500 million in debt securities, said Moody's.

Three key internal appointments for INVESCO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... was a key driver of the INVESCO product strategy which led to the launch of the INVESCO Wholesale Global Properties Securities Fund, the INVESCO Universal Income Funds, the INVESCO Wholesale Japanese Equity Trust as well as a range of specialist institutional ...

Advisor charged with $1.5m fraud

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
An advisor has been charged after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation found that he allegedly defrauded almost $1.5 million from investors. Financial advisor Antonio Pisano appeared in Armadale Magistrates' Court ...

Big tax hits drive after-tax reporting

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2006
... fine, as long as the adviser and client understand that's what the product does," said Bowerman. While the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has not taken a particular stance on after-tax reporting, the regulator's equivalent in ...