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Russell Investments Launches Russell Europe SMID 300 Index - Russell Indexes Launches First Of Its Kind Small- And Mid-Cap European Equity Index Constructed Of Highly Liquid Constituents, Helping Investment Professionals Bridge A Gap In Market Access

Date 06/03/2012

Russell Investments today announces the launch of the Russell Europe SMID 300 Index, providing the first index of highly liquid and rapidly tradable small- and mid-cap European stocks designed to be used as the basis of investable products. This is one more in a series of product and service enhancements introduced by Russell Indexes to European clients in the last year as the firm continues to build on its global capabilities.

MEFF To Extend The Trading Hours For IBEX 35 Futures Starting On May 21st

Date 06/03/2012

MEFF, BME’s Derivatives Market, is planning to extend the trading hours for  IBEX 35 Futures as of May 21. Trading will then take place from 9:00 to 20:00  hrs for these contracts while the current trading hours, from 9:00 to 17:35 hrs,  will apply to the rest of Derivatives products traded on this market.

Saxo Bank To Leverage Rapid Addition’s Low Latency FIX Engine

Date 06/03/2012

Rapid Addition, the leading provider of trading technology solutions to buy- and sell-side financial institutions, announced that Saxo Bank, the international investment bank specialising in online trading and investment, is leveraging the C# version of RA–Cheetah™ as its FIX Protocol engine which remains the world's lowest latency and highest performing solution.

HKEx On-Floor & Off-Floor Trading Statistics

Date 06/03/2012

Transaction in Terms of Turnover and Number of Trades Conducted On-floor and Off-floor

Milestone Group Supports Skandia’s Income Distributions And Reconciliations With pControl - Phase Two Of pControl Roll Out Enhances Efficiency And Risk Management

Date 06/03/2012

Milestone Group, the specialist provider of optimised fund processing solutions to the global funds industry, today announced that Skandia, the largest platform operator in the UK, has fully migrated its income distribution and reconciliation processes onto Milestone Group’s pControl platform. This follows Skandia’s successful implementation of pControl for fee and rebate management in 2011.

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - February 2012

Date 06/03/2012

• The average daily turnover for the first two months of 2012 was $62,507 million, a decrease of 16 per cent when compared with $73,990 million for the same period last year.
• The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first two months of 2012 was $7,762 million, an increase of 32 per cent when compared with $5,896 million for the same period last year.

ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report – February 2012

Date 06/03/2012

New listings for the month were Abacus Storage Operations Limited (ABP); Abacus Storage Property Trust (ABP); Bella Trust Series 2011-3 (BNJ); Goodrich Resources Ltd (GRX); Highfield Resources Limited (HFR); National RMBS Trust 2011-2 (NAO); Pura Vida Energy NL (PVD); Taruga Gold Limited (TAR). 

HKEx's Securities Market Growth Strongly Supported By Overseas Investors

Date 06/03/2012

Trading by overseas investors attained a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34 per cent in the past decade, strongly supporting overall market growth, according to the Cash Market Transaction Survey 2010/11 released today (6 March 2011) by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx).

ASX Group Monthly Activity Report – February 2012

Date 06/03/2012

Trading – Cash markets (including equities, interest rates and warrants trades

In February 2012 the number of trades was 19% higher than the pcp, while the total value of trading was 7% lower than the pcp.  

EDHEC-Risk Institute Research Sees Social Infrastructure As Too Small And Risky To Be Attractive To Pension Funds

Date 06/03/2012

In a new study entitled “Pension Fund Investment in Social Infrastructure: Insights from the 2012 reform of the private finance initiative in the United Kingdom,” EDHEC-Risk Institute has identified two fundamental issues that make social infrastructure potentially unattractive to pension funds: in-built political risk and limited asset pool size. Social infrastructure investments deliver public assets and services, such as schools and hospital buildings, in exchange for a revenue stream paid directly by the public sector. It is typically opposed to economic infrastructure, which collects revenues from end users and can include toll roads, airports or power generation.