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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
... proposed merger of the smelting business of Zinifex and Umicore. Yesterday, the Australian share market ended deep in the red on the back of lower US markets. Compounding that was the higher-than-expected inflation figures, which triggered fresh worries ...

Gloves come off over ASX monopoly

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
As ASIC calls for public submissions on the ASX's local shares trading monopoly, rival AXE claims the ASX has been running a competition fear campaign. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a consultation process on ...

AXA re-writes individual insurance

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
AXA today launched a significant upgrade to its individual insurance products, offering a new Trauma Reinstatement option, reduced TPD waiting periods and increased TPD payouts. The trauma reinstatement option gives policy holders the chance to reinstate ...

Liquidnet trading breaks mould

A US-based institutional broker, Liquidnet, plans to launch an electronic trading system in Australia that would blow the rest of the competition out of the water. Named as one of the top ten brokers on the New York and London Stock Exchanges, Liquidnet ...

APX launches first local carbon trading exchange

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
Australia's first ever carbon trading exchange has opened today in Melbourne, letting businesses set carbon pricing five years before the Howard government's current 2012 goal. A joint venture between the Australia Pacific Exchange (APX), the Australian ...

Financial Simplicity powers Portfolio Express

Financial Simplicity has launched Portfolio Express, a model portfolio rebalancing tool tailored to the needs of financial planners. "Portfolio Express differs from many portfolio rebalancing solutions in the market in that it allows an adviser to also ...

Maxim throws weight on unlisted property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Maxim Asset Management has launched a new fund which will invest up to 60 per cent in Australian unlisted property due to the increased risk of listed trusts, said managing director and chief executive Winston Sammut. Sammut said, 'Although the Australian ...

CFS ploughs $280m in Myer property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Colonial First State Retail Property Trust purchased, as part of a consortium, Melbourne's landmark Myer department store building for $605 million. The consortium comprises CFS, GIC Real Estate and The Myer Family Company. CFS will initially outlay ...

WRF taps demand for alternatives

WRF Securities has signaled its plans to be a major player in global property and alternative assets after it appointed industry stalwart Maurice Kluge to the top job. Maurice Kluge, formerly head of property funds management at Allco, was appointed ...

Basis Capital suspends yield fund

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
Local hedge fund manager Basis Capital yesterday suspended redemptions from its $1 billion Basis Yield Fund. The fund manager wrote to investors saying that disruption to the global structured credit market had created difficulties for the fund and ...