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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... 1700 AEST on Friday, the local unit has traded between 106.10 US cents and 107.11 cents. On Friday night, Fitch Ratings Agency slashed Greece's credit ratings by three notches to B+ due to the massive challenges of correcting the country's finances and ...

No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... normalising money policy settings. Following the end of QE2 next month, they'll stop reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities and return to holding "essentially only Treasury securities" -- if conditions don't ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... unprecedented US default on its debt. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congressional lawmakers in a letter Monday that the agency is taking steps to postpone a default. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 47.38 points, or 0.4 per cent, to close ...

Bloomberg Tradebook taps into research vein

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... offerings, with a focus on transparency and client access to information. Available to their Australian clients, the global agency broker has introduced an expanded team of independent research providers (IRPs) and three new client features in response ...

Neilson loosens reins at Platinum

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... Platinum Asset Management said the changes were a reward for strong performance and provided motivational goals. Ratings agency Morningstar lists the strategy as Highly Recommended. "This has always been Neilson's portfolio, and few can match his prowess," ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... two members of the three-man team who suddenly left in April. The rating will remain until a complete review is done. The agency also issued a "strong" rating for two Vanguard ETFs. The first is the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF which tracks ...

Sustainable strategy downgraded

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... has downgraded an AMP Capital strategy to "avoid" after the loss of a key leader from the management team. The ratings agency reduced AMP Capital Sustainable Share Strategy to its lowest category following the departure of Michael Anderson, head of sustainable ...

Russell commodities fund on hold

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... to Standard and Poor's within the next few days on being re-rated. Jason Patton, fund services analyst for the ratings agency, said they were placing the fund on hold until they speak to the portfolio manager and assess the effect of the change. The ...

Fund reaps reward in shopping centre debt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... debt markets, earmarking $250 million for Australian commercial mortgage backed securities. The deal is subject to ratings agency confirmation of the AAA rating on the note. The universities-based superannuation fund is purchasing the securities from ...

BNY Mellon upgrades asset servicing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... access data on their public and private market investments in one system. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing provides fund transfer agency services to over 13,000 funds with a combined US$2 trillion in assets. It offers custody and fund services, securities ...