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S&P downgrades AMP Group Holdings' rating to BBB+

Standard & Poor's has downgraded AMP Group Holdings Limited - the guarantor of the AMP Income Securities - to BBB+ from A-, and removed it from CreditWatch. The AMP Income Securities rating has also been lowered, to BBB- from BBB. These downgrades follow ...

ASIC funding boost could reveal 20% solvency problem rate: PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has predicted that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will discover solvency problems in over 20 per cent of Australian companies following the Federal Government's decision to provide $3 million ...

MFS announces 25% profit rise on listed debt trust

... McLaughlins Financial Services (MFS) has announced a third quarter profit of $1.13 million on its Leveraged Investment and Securities Trust (LIST), up 25 per cent from the first half (financial year 2003-2003) earnings. "Demand for mezzanine debt is ...

ASIC lifts interim stop order on Absolute Capital fund

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has lifted the interim stop order it placed on Absolute Capital's 'Yield Strategies Fund' on Tuesday, the Sydney-based boutique announced today. "ASIC's lifting of the order means that this ...

Economists welcome Government "backflip" on CGS

... Peter Costello was adamant that all government debt should be retired and along with it the Commonwealth Government Securities (CGS) market, which subsequently would be no longer required." Pereira also said that over the last five years the value of ...

Assirt upgrades Citigroup's Australian equities management

... develop an investment culture of strong interaction and communication. Assirt has also given CitiAm's listed property securities a rating of 'very strong', but its international fixed interest has received a rating of 'weak'. The fund's corporate bond ...

Macquarie launches new geared property fund

... listed stocks in the retail, commercial, tourism and industrial property sectors via the wholesale Macquarie Property Securities Fund, although it may also invest in listed property trusts and listed property companies. Macquarie added that it will use ...

S&P appoints Perpetual Trustees as data collection agent

... both issuers and investors. In particular it will streamline the reporting processes for issuers of mortgage-backed securities, he said. "Investors in asset and mortgage backed securities are increasingly demanding comprehensive and timely performance ...

Court freezes assets of Queensland property group

... of Queensland has frozen certain assets of First Foundation Developments following an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Interim orders issued by the court freeze assets to the value of approximately $1.8 million ...

Financial planners get chance to turn tables on media

... has subjected the financial planning industry to significant scrutiny since the release of the critical Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)/Australian Consumers Association (ACA) report. "It will be interesting to see who runs the ...