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CalPERS takes legal action against state furloughs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... and administers retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million active and retired State, public school, and local public agency employees on behalf of 2,600 California public employers, and health benefits for nearly 1.3 million members.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... cents or 2.43 per cent to $20.69 and NAB rose 71 cents or 2.63 per cent to $27.66. The major miners were up after ratings agency Moody's reaffirmed BHP Billiton Ltd's A1 rating following the company's full year results released on Wednesday. BHP Billiton ...

ISN to APRA: get on with it

... data published by super fund research firms, said ISN in a statement. David Whiteley, ISN executive manager, said, "Each agency is using different methodology and therefore produces different outcomes [and] super funds are not compelled to provide data ...

Instinet appoints deputy head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... member of the group, which was launched by parent company Instinet - a tech firm specialising in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services - in May 2009. Moore joins Instinet from Macquarie Securities, where he was responsible for Australian ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... last Friday when Fitch Ratings revised NZ's credit outlook rating from stable to negative. The international credit rating agency took this decision because of its concern over the country's high debt levels and reliance on foreign borrowing. Looks like ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... even senior political commentators have a poor understanding about how the Future Fund, or more precisely its Management Agency, operates - despite it already being, according to Rainmaker, Australia's largest institutional investor and one of the nation's ...

Dark liquidity on UBS tap

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... liquidity for ASX-listed securities. UBS PIN allows client orders to cross with other UBS institutional and retail client agency order flow, before they route to the displayed ASX order book. "Launched originally in the US and Europe, and most recently ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... raised concerns that the recent rally in equities was too fast. Investor sentiment was also dented by a warning from ratings agency Standard & Poor's that it may downgrade Britain's debt ratings. Wall St equities finished lower, precious metals were ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... on Wall Street. It did not stop there -- it went back for a second helping - and bought another US$3.1 billion worth of Agency securities before closing. Recall that the same thing happened to the US dollar - it dropped sharply against the euro, the ...

To Scotland we will go

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009