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Gloves come off over ASX monopoly

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... hoping to be operational by August and Liquidnet are targeting a launch date in the third quarter. LiquidNet, ranked among the top ten brokers on the NSE, Nasdaq and LSE, and traded an average of 53.6 million shares per day in 2006. Meanwhile, ASIC seems ...

PE driving improved corporate governance: CHAMP

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker. "As an asset class, private equity has not been a success. You really need to be in the top 25 (to do well)," she said. Private equity funds' high cost structure also put investors off, she said, droving people ...

Biometrics to curb ID theft

... crime and improvements in the fight against it will resonate with a lot of people," said Best. Stamping out ID theft is on the top of the priority list of many banks and finance institutions. According to a separate study conducted by Deloitte last year ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
... per cent to 1,541.57 and the Nasdaq Composite Index was up 2.98 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 2,690.58. LONDON - Britain's top share index ended higher ahead of corporate results, as concern surrounding the subprime mortgage market in the US was offset ...

Market wrap - midday

... at all from a pretty downbeat US market, with their trifecta of indexes all down over one per cent. "But if you look at the top 20, there is only a handful of movers upwards. "Today's losses are down to the lack of direction from the US and the hiatus ...

Liquidnet trading breaks mould

... an electronic trading system in Australia that would blow the rest of the competition out of the water. Named as one of the top ten brokers on the New York and London Stock Exchanges, Liquidnet enables fund managers and buy-side traders to buy and sell ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... 0.76 per cent, to close at 2,720.04, after earlier hitting 2,724.74, its highest in six and a half years. LONDON - Britain's top share index snapped a three-day losing streak to close up 1.1 per cent as Vodafone's forecast-beating results and a rebound ...

Super fund returns best in a decade: SelectingSuper

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... options the performance can range from 19 per cent to 12 per cent. Similarly, for Australian share investment options, the top funds earned 46 per cent, compared to the lower performers observed so far with just 19 per cent," Keevers said.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... at 1,546.17. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 12.80 points, or 0.47 per cent, to close at 2,699.49. LONDON - Britain's top share index fell more than one percent as downbeat comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hit global equities already ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... absence of a better bid. Shares in Salmat were five cents lower to $4.72, while HPA shares added three cents to $2.68. The top traded stock by volume was gold and base metals explorer Excalibur Mining Corp Ltd, with 65.19 million shares changing hands ...