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Merrill Lynch appoints BDM for WA

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... associate director for funds management and corporate sectors with property group Aspen and has worked with the former Securities Institute of Australia and in retail banking roles. MLIM head of distribution, Damien Frawley, said Barker's broad range ...

AustralianSuper moniker confusion

... you would have done fact checking, but then maybe they were aware of it anyway." A spokesperson for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said when companies register their names through the regulator even very similar ones are ...

MacarthurCook shares up five-fold as FUM tops $1bn

... 2003, when I established the company as an investment manager specialising in direct property, mortgage and real estate securities investments," said Craig Dunstan, the group's founding managing director. Dunstan quit a stable, well paying job as chief ...

ASIC bans broker and adviser for life

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has imposed permanent bans on an insurance broker and a former ANZ Bank adviser for syphoning off significant amounts of money. Former insurance broker Dennis Whittaker, who was general manager ...

AMP Capital ploughing $260m into Chinese equities

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2006
... 1,400 stocks in China's largest equity market, usually restricted only to domestic Chinese investors. Under the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) license, AMP Capital Investors can invest around $260 million directly in Chinese A class ...

Past performance is misleading advertising: ASIC

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned investment funds about using past performance as part of advertising or promotional material, singling out a recent advertising campaign by BT Financial Group. In issuing its warning ...

Options broker guilty of large scale forgery

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
A former Bell Potter Securities options adviser and stockbroker has entered a guilty plea to 27 charges of forgery. South Australian resident Neville Kakoschke entered a guilty plea to the 27 forgery charges brought by the Australian Securities and ...

ASIC fends off non-complying share offer

... contravened the Corporations Act. ASIC has investigated Fendwave about the unsolicited offers to shareholders to purchase securities in its subsidiary, Murray River Developments Limited (MRDL). Among other things, the offers made by Fendwave did not ...

ASIC issues disclosure guidelines for super trustees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a new policy detailing guidelines for superannuation trustees regarding the delivery of product disclosure information about investment strategies to members. Policy Statement 184 ...

Private equity cash cow keeps growing

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... inexpensive to seed. The future for private equity, according to Macquarie Fund Management's Ben Bruck, is in unlisted securities funds which avoid the common pitfalls of illiquidity, ongoing call ups for additional capital and they provide more diversification. ...