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Investors’ Perceptions Of Securities Industry Improve - Tenth Annual Securities Industry Association Investor Survey Shows Guarded Optimism That Reforms Are Working - Investors Cite Overall Satisfaction With Brokers, Concerns About Industry Behavior, Desi

Date 04/11/2004

More investors today feel positively toward the securities industry than in 2002 and 2003, according to the annual Securities Industry Association Investor Survey, but ratings are lower than in the period 1997-2001. Sixty-four percent of respondents expressed favorable opinions of the industry, a rebound from 55 percent in 2002 and 2003.
Fremont Investment Advisors To Pay Over $4 Million To Settle SEC Market Timing And Late Trading Charges

Date 04/11/2004

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged San Francisco-based mutual fund adviser Fremont Investment Advisors with entering into improper and undisclosed agreements that allowed favored large investors to engage in rapid short-term securities trading known as market timing. Also charged by the Commission for their role in Fremont's improper market timing arrangements were former President and CEO Nancy Tengler and former Vice President of Institutional Sales Larry Adams. In addition t
Fomento Economico Mexicano S.A. de C.V. - UBD IWF Change In The S&P Latin American 40 Indices

Date 04/11/2004

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P Latin America 40 Index effective after the close of trading on Monday, November 8, 2004. Fomento Economico Mexicano S.A. de C.V. - UBD (Mexico, SEDOL 2242059) Investable Weight Factor will change to 1% from 0.64%. This change comes after further clarification from the company regarding the holdings breakdown for the various classes of shares.
Daniel J. Ludeman Elected Securities Industry Association Chairman; James P. Gorman Named Chairman-Elect; Douglas E. Hill, Stephen M. Lessing, And Ellyn A. Mccolgan Elected To Be Vice Chairs; James D. Price Continues As Treasurer

Date 04/11/2004

The board of directors of the Securities Industry Association today elected Daniel J. Ludeman as the trade association's chairman for 2005. Ludeman is president and chief executive officer of Wachovia Securities, LLC. Ludeman succeeds Richard E. Thornburgh, vice chairman of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse First Boston and a member of the Executive Board at Credit Suisse Group. Thornburgh will continue to serve on SIA’s board in 2005 as immediate past chairman. James P. Go
Committee Of European Securities Regulators Publishes The Results Of Investigations Of Mis-Practises In The European Investment Fund Industry

Date 04/11/2004

CESR publishes today the results of a report (Ref. CESR/04-407) which sets out the findings of CESR members following their investigations into the possibility of abusive mis-practises such as, late trading or market timing practices in the European investment fund industry.

CMS WebView TDI Feed Agreement

Date 04/11/2004

CMS WebView plc (CMS), an international systems and software provider, and Radianz, the leading global provider of financial connectivity services, today announced that CMS will make available its TDI™ Feed of real-time futures and options data through Radianz’s shared market infrastructure.
CBOT Fed Watch - November 3 Market Close

Date 04/11/2004

In advance of next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting on November 10, the Chicago Board of Trade will be reporting daily rate change probabilities in the FOMC's federal funds target rate, as indicated by the CBOT® 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract. The CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures contract is a key benchmark interest rate barometer that reflects the forward overnight effective rate for excess reserves that are traded among commercial banks in the U.S. federal funds market.
CBOE And CFE Thanksgiving Holiday Trading Schedule

Date 04/11/2004

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today announced the following trading schedule in observance of the Thanksgiving day holiday for CBOE and the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE):
Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad Update In Kuala Lumpur Syariah Index (KLSI) Components

Date 04/11/2004

Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (Bursa Securities) is updating the component stocks of the Kuala Lumpur Syariah Index (KLSI) in line with the revised list of approved securities issued by the Syariah Advisory Council of the Securities Commission on 29 October 2004. The component stocks update to the KLSI will come into effect on Monday, 22 November 2004.
Sverre Lilleng Appointed Head Of The Surveillance Section At Oslo Børs - Sverre Lilleng (47) Has Been Appointed Head Of The Surveillance Section Of Oslo Børs And Joins The Oslo Børs Senior Management Team.

Date 03/11/2004

Lilleng is a law graduate of the University of Oslo, and has been head of the Market Surveillance department at Oslo Børs since 1998. Prior to joining Oslo Børs he was Chief Public Prosecutor at Økokrim (the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime), and his previous experience includes working as a police inspector and an assistant judge.