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Date 01/06/2011
Instinet Launches Australian Liquidity Pool
Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced that its Instinet Australia Pty Limited subsidiary has launched Instinet BLX Australia, a new liquidity pool for Australian equities. BLX – which Instinet also operates in the US and Canada – aggregates multiple orders from both buy- and sell-side participants and consolidates them into block-sized trades. The unique BLX model was designed to increase trade size by appealing to an array of trading participants, including both passive block traders and those using algorithmic trading strategies.
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Date 31/05/2011
CalPERS Backs New Investor Guide For Hedge Fund Relationships
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has strongly endorsed a new guide by the Investor Steering Committee of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund association, to promote better alignment of interests between institutional investors and hedge fund managers.
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Date 31/05/2011
Cepea And BM&FBOVESPA Agribusiness Price Indexes Obtain ISO 9001 Status - Live Cattle, Feeder Cattle, Corn, And Rice Now Have Price Indexes With Internationally Recognized Quality Certification
The Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics (Cepea) and BM&FBOVESPA has been granted the ISO 9001 certification for four of its agribusiness price indexes: Live Cattle (São Paulo price), Corn (Campinas, SP), Feeder Catlle (Mato Grosso do Sul) and Rice (Rio Grande do Sul). This internationally recognized certification is a milestone for the Brazilian agribusiness and represents, for market agents, a guarantee of quality of the daily processes of collecting, calculating and releasing reference prices.
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Date 31/05/2011
CalPERS Names RĂ©al Desrochers Senior Investment Officer Of The Private Equity Program
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) today announced the appointment of Réal Desrochers as Senior Investment Officer for the pension fund’s private equity program.
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Date 31/05/2011
Component Changes Made To Dow Jones Real Estate Titans 30 Index
Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider,today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Real Estate Titans 30 Index.
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Date 31/05/2011
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices
Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes:
- It is expected that the shareholders of Massey Energy Company (NYSE:MEE) will accept the cash and share offer from Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:ANR). Shareholders of both companies meet on Wednesday, June 1, 2011, to approve the transaction. Assuming shareholder approvals are received, Massey Energy shareholders will receive $US10.00 cash and 1.025 shares of Alpha Natural Resources for each share held. Massey Energy will be removed from the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index after the close of Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Following the acquisition of Massey Energy, the relative weight of Alpha Natural Resources will increase in the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index to reflect the issuance of shares as part of the transaction, also after the close on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.
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Date 31/05/2011
ESMA: Publication Of The Regulation On Supervision Of Credit Rating Agencies
The CRA regulation establishing ESMA's responsibility for the supervision and registartion of credit rating agencies in the European Union is published today in the official journal.
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Date 31/05/2011
NYSE Technologies Named "Best Data Provider" By Inside Market Data
NYSE Technologies, the global commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), announced today that it has been named the "Best Data Provider" among global securities exchanges by Inside Market Data.
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Date 31/05/2011
FINRA Charges David Lerner & Associates With Soliciting Investors To Purchase REITs Without Fully Investigating Suitability; Lerner Marketed REITs On Its Website With Misleading Returns
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has filed a complaint against David Lerner & Associates, Inc. (DLA), of Syosset, NY, charging the firm with soliciting investors to purchase shares in Apple REIT Ten, a non-traded $2 billion Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), without conducting a reasonable investigation to determine whether it was suitable for investors, and with providing misleading information on its website regarding Apple REIT Ten distributions. DLA has sold and continues to sell Apple REIT Ten targeting unsophisticated and elderly customers with unsuitable sales of the illiquid security.
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Date 31/05/2011
Dow Jones Indexes: Agriculture Vs. Equities
The trailing 3-year performance of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Subindex (commodity futures) and Dow Jones U.S. Food Producers Total Stock Market Index (equities) are both approximately +3.5% per annum. However, the corresponding year-to-date and 1-year performance show the true volatility between these asset classes: year-to-date, equities are up 11.01% while commodity futures are up only 2.96%, yet commodity futures are up 59.82% and equities are up 21.41% based upon 1-year performance.
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