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Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... So what's a German to do to defend its new currency? Regulate on its own. Yes Virginia, we're back to 2008. Naked short selling will be banned in Germany when their clocks strike midnight tonight -- and there it will remain till 31 March 2011. Germany's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... selling stocks sharply lower overnight. The falling euro and news that German regulators plan to limit some kinds of short selling fed Wall Street's drop. The euro gave stocks a boost early in the day when 10 European Union countries sent bailout money ...

HFA to re-open flagship fund

HFA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... managers were considerig suspending or closing their fund's redemption or application terms following the ban on short selling in 2008, according to a survey by the Australian arm of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) at the tim ...

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... will ultimately impact adoption." Absolute return, arbitrage strategies, derivative strategies, portable alpha, short selling and inverse strategies are just a few defined as alternative strategies in the report. Alternative energy, commodities, currency ...

Govt announces short selling disclosure timeline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
The federal government expects to release short selling disclosure requirements in the next month, eight months after the government passed the Bill. A spokesperson for Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... because the global financial crisis has made it difficult for investors to access capital, regulatory constraints on short selling has affected how stocks are correctly valued and higher transaction costs means many investors are locked out of these ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... roadshow seminar in Adelaide. On Monday, the Australian share market closed lower on the lifting of a ban on covered short selling of financial stocks and news of a North Korean underground atomic weapons test. Higher prices for base metals and oil boosted ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... contracts. CMC Markets analyst David Taylor said it was too early to assess the impact of the lifting of a ban on covered short selling of financial stocks. Mr Taylor said the financial sector had been down about one per cent approaching noon, with Macquarie ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... criticism, industry reactions have been mixed towards ASIC's announcement today that it had lifted the ban on covered short selling of financial securities. ASIC today lifted the ban which was first put in place on 21 September last year, following extreme ...

Plato receives $20m inflow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... comes as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced it is keeping the ban on covered short selling of financial securities until the end of May. Yet Hamson said the ban isn't affecting the strategy's ability to perform. "Hopefully ...