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  • Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

    Date 15/12/2003

    Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes effective after the close of business on Friday, December 19, 2003: The relative weight of Cott Corporation (TSX:BCB - GICS 30201030 - Soft Drinks) will increase by approximately 0.10% in the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite Indices, by 0.13% in the S&P/TSX 60 and 60 Capped Indices, by 0.12% in the TSX 100 Index and by 2.20% in the S&P/TSX Capped Consumer Staples Index. The relative weight change

  • Securities Markets: European Commission Proposes That The Community Sign The Hague Securities Convention

    Date 15/12/2003

    The European Commission has proposed that the European Community should sign the Hague Convention, a multilateral treaty on determining the ownership of securities held in electronic form. The proposal takes the form of a draft Decision to be adopted by the EU's Council of Ministers authorising the signature of the Convention. The Convention provides a uniform legal formula for determining proprietary rights and will be particularly useful in cases where securities are held t

  • SEC Brings First Failure To Supervise Action Against Principal Of An Unregistered Investment Adviser To A Hedge Fund - Also Charges Hedge Fund Director Of Investments With Fraud

    Date 15/12/2003

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the first "failure to supervise" enforcement action against the principal of an unregistered investment adviser to a hedge fund. Previous failure to supervise actions against investment advisers had been brought only against registered advisers. In the same action, the Commission charged the adviser's director of investments with fraud.

  • S&P And CITICS Join Forces To Build New A-Share Index Series

    Date 15/12/2003

    Standard & Poor's, the leading global provider of independent investment research, indices and ratings, and CITIC Securities (CITICS), one of China's leading financial and investment services companies, announced today that they have agreed to jointly develop a new series of indices covering China's A-shares equity market.

  • Re-Appointment Of Chairman Of UK Financial Reporting Council

    Date 15/12/2003

    Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade & Industry today announced the re-appointment of Sir Bryan Nicholson as Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).