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ASIC clarifies its powers

On the back of the shadow shopping results, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a guide to the financial services industry and consumers clarifying its role and powers. The guide details the range of actions available ...

PrefSure scores rating upgrade thanks to TOWER

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2006
... Its liquidity is assessed as strong, reflecting the positive net cash flows and the high level of cash and short-term securities in the investment portfolio." S&P also said that the outlook for PrefSure and TOWER was increasingly positive on the back ...

Another Westpoint collapse

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced that it has begun proceedings to wind up Cinema City Mezzanine Pty Ltd, part of the Westpoint group. ASIC is asking the Federal Court to appoint a liquidator to Cinema City Mezzanine ...

MacarthurCook boosts retail team

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
... Arc Funds Management and will now boost the distribution of MacarthurCook's mortgage, direct property and real estate securities funds to financial planners. MacarthurCook managing director, Craig Dunstan, said the expansion will help build business ...

Multi-broker trading platform launched by Bourse Data

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... platform with a twist, a multi-broker platform that lets investors choose which broker they want to use for their online securities transactions. The platform, Bourse Trade, can already handle equities and options trades and by around mid-year it should ...

Grange scores new equities director and researcher

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
Grange Securities is rebuilding its equities team with the appointment of a director to head the institutional equities team. Peter Talbot, formerly a director of Patersons, head of domestic equities sales at JP Morgan and before that at County NatWest/Saloman ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... shares such as Exxon, but weighed on the broad market. On Nasdaq, semiconductor shares led losses after Banc of America Securities and UBS cut their price targets on the semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials. Shares of Boeing, a Dow component ...

Mum and dad investors want a slice of the private equity pie

... illiquid with "liquidity lock-ups" ranging from seven to 12 years. But Macquarie's offering, the Global Private Equity Securities Fund, sidesteps that hurdle by being available, initially, through Asgard and Macquarie Wrap. Complete with daily unit pricing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
... Australia releasing its commodity price index for March. Other economic releases today include the March PMI, the TD Securities/Melbourne Institute March inflation gauge and the ANZ March Job ads series. On the equities front Aviva Australia releases ...

ASIC pursues Citigroup for alleged insider trading

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has made serious allegations that Citigroup Global Markets Australia has engaged in substantial insider trading activity. ASIC filed a civil proceeding in the Federal Court against Citigroup ...