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Directors face prison term for lack of disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Two Australian-listed company directors have been slapped with three-year jail terms for using offshore accounts to illegally hide their shareholdings in the business. The prison terms were handed to Stuart Corp and Brian Smith, directors of Corp and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
The Australian stock market remained in the red at noon, following a weak lead over the weekend from Wall Street, which marked the 20th anniversary of Black Monday with a widespread sell-off. The US market was also depressed by warnings from a major ...

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 ...

Shut up and drive

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Consumer demand has driven motor vehicle sales comfortably above the million mark, but while cars are cheaper consumers still feel that petrol prices are taking them for a ride. In spite of this, on the latest vehicle sales data, petrol guzzling SUV's ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
The Australian stock market remained in the red at noon, with the blame spread across all the local sectors and following a slight dip from Wall Street. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had dropped 44.4 points to 6723.3 and the All Ordinaries ...

CommBank gets online upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
Riding on the increase in user traffic, the Commonwealth Bank has rolled out a series of IT upgrades to its website, designed to improve online security and cut by nearly half the time spent by customers navigating through their various web pages. The ...

Share trading reforms to lower transaction costs: ITG

New share trading regulations in the US and Europe will have a positive knock-on effect on the trading costs of Australia's super funds and fund managers, said Michael Corcoran, director at Investment Technology Group (ITG). Corcoran said that regulatory ...

The $10 million sustainable punt

The Local Government Superannuation Scheme (LGSS) continues to be the poster child for sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) after raking in $9.6 million in returns for members by shorting shares that didn't pass its SRI screen. Long before Al ...

SMSFs navigate savings

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
Self managed super funds (SMSFs) could be the next big client segment of Aviva's Navigator platform, thanks to their online account linking service, according to general manager of wealth management products, Andrew Barker. The feature, which treats ...

NZ mobile tech company spreads fronds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
Global technology services provider LogicaCMG has partnered with New Zealand mobile banking, payment and authentication software manufacturer Fronde Anywhere to distribute their SMS and Java-based mobile banking products worldwide. The tie-up will give ...