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Van Eyk recruits BDM for advisor role

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
Research house van Eyk has appointed a national business development manager to build relationships with financial advisers across Australia. Lyndall James will work with existing and new clients in the adviser and intermediary space for the van Eyk ...

Liquidnet hits $2bn in Q1 trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... platforms can be an effective way to trade wholesale volumes, according to Sam Macqueen, head of Liquidnet Australia. "As a block order pool, we have addressed a vacuum faced by institutional investors - the inability of institutional liquidity to safely ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
The Australian share market was flat in opening trade on a weak lead from Wall Street after another earthquake struck Japan overnight. At 1013 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 2.8 points lower at 4,905.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Bank blocks pension gold

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Central bank De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) ordered Dutch pension fund SPVG to reduce its investment in gold from 13 per cent of its portfolio to three per cent or less. SPVG, the pension fund of glassworks company Vereenigde Glasfabrieken, has been given ...

Malaysia pioneers Islamic Finance framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... year saying this lack of diversification among products available from Islamic financial institutions was a major stumbling block holding back the industry.

AXA's North man joins NAB

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
Andrew Barnett, the man who led the team behind AXA Asia Pacific's successful North platform and product range, has joined NAB this week to head up the bank's new retirement solutions team. Barnett, formerly head of structured solutions at AXA, has ...

ACCC gives go ahead to SGX-ASX deal

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... year over whether the deal is in the national interest. Approval from the ACCC was not expected to be a major stumbling block for the deal, given that the ASX effectively has a local monopoly, and competition between the two exchanges for listings, clearing ...

Covered bond conundrum

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... being ranked below covered bond investors in the capital structure, an idea which has proved an insurmountable stumbling block to the products gaining approval in the past.

Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... per cent in the first, things are still going good for the poor little rich kid. More so now that the biggest house in the block - the US -- is being repaired by QE2 and (up to QEn if necessary) and the compromise deal on the "stay" on the Bush tax c ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving strong, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all key markets significantly higher on the back of the US Federal Reserve's stimulus announcement on Wednesday. On the ASX24 at 0657 AEDT, the December ...