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SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

Financial messaging specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... firm's AGM to see where the company is heading after yesterday's High Court ruling to overturn the Consumer Commission's block from a bid from Woolworths Ltd and FoodStuffs Ltd. Yesterday, the Australian share market closed in positive territory buoyed ...

Austock ploughs more into property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Austock will introduce new listed and unlisted property products next year, along with international equity and high yield funds, according to managing director Tim Boyle. The company will use the remaining $5.5 million of its $10.5 million float bounty ...

Liquidnet rollout gains ASIC approval

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Liquidnet Australia has received Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) approval to roll out phase one of its new software that will allow institutions to trade large blocks of equities directly and anonymously with each other. The software ...

Share trading reforms to lower transaction costs: ITG

... system, launched only six months ago. POSIT Alert is a transactions trading system that allows investors to trade large block of shares anonymously, to minimise information leakage to the market. Michelle Baltazar

Core-satellite investing gets the balance right

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
... portfolio depends on the risk/return profile of the individual investor. "The key is to use indexing as a central building block of a portfolio and then finding quality active managers to add alpha or outperformance to the satellite component of the ...

Kaplan adapts Finsia teaching model

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2007
... works on a trimester system, with face to face or distance teaching. We are looking at offering courses in workshop and block release formats. "Each subject will have a online subject room where students will be able to post questions and have them answered ...

Sydney on $24 million a day

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
There's nothing like waking up to the joyful chirping of Black Hawk helicopters and protesters performing their morning ablutions under the energetic stream of a $600,000 water cannon. No wonder Sydney residents are being given the big heave-ho. It's ...

BNP funds keep heads off block

Two of BNP Paribas' re-opened fixed income funds have been spared the guillotine and emerged with minor scratches after the company announced official valuations yesterday. BNP's funds defied expectations by returning smaller than expected losses, with ...

Liquidnet trading breaks mould

... investor is getting is maybe not as good as it could have been." By contrast, Liquidnet's trading system is an automated block trading network where institutions anonymously book in how much they want to buy or sell. The system then matches the trade ...