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FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

... folded wiping out more than US$1.4 billion of investor money. FBI director Robert Mueller III said in a statement that the agency will continue to direct more resources into catching mortgage fraud and other corporate securities fraud. "Our objective ...

Future Fund to release quarterly public reports

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... amongst the poorest transparency and accountability of any sovereign fund in the world. Paul Costello, Future Fund Management Agency general manager however explained to a Senate inquiry last week that the poor level of disclosure ranking was due to ...

Defence housing to double pipeline to $3bn

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... Housing Australia (DHA) have long been a retail investors' favourite but last month the Financial Standard reported the agency was looking to boost its presence in the institutional arena. "DHA acknowledges that the institutional market provides an alternative ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... Ordinaries gained 7.3 points to 5781.2. NEW YORK - US stocks fell over one per cent, led by financial shares, after ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut debt ratings of three large brokers and fourth biggest commerical bank Wachovia replaced its chief ...

Defence Housing open for instos

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... Conventional "mum and dad" retail investors have traditionally made up the majority of DHA investors, although the government agency is now re-evaluating its offers to the institutional market. "DHA acknowledges that the institutional market provides ...

Options Strategy branches out to Spark Green

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... prompted Options Strategy to develop the business, said Tony Kent, Spark Green managing director. "The launch of a specialist agency for the finance sector was a natural progression for our business," he said. "Options Strategy has developed a thorough ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... Fund and $10 billion in a new Health and Hospitals Fund. All three funds will be managed by the Future Fund Management Agency which will explode out of blocks to more than $100 billion in assets under management, propelling it to become Australia's largest ...

Canadian RMBS not the answer: S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... residential-backed mortgage securities (RMBS) market should be allowed to recover without the intervention of a government-backed agency, argues Standard & Poor's (S&P). Neither a nationalisation of Australia's market nor an adoption of a Commonwealth ...

Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... similar to Canada's, where market liquidity is higher and the associated risks lower because of the government backed MBS agency. "Investment hungry super funds and other institutional investors are expected to benefit from an enhanced model that would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... news today, the Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment for April will be released. US Environmental Protection Agency chief executive Stephen Johnson will talk on issues of environmental governance for business at the American Chamber of Commerce ...