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Warning on dilutive raisings

Warning on dilutive raisings

by Patrick Durkin and Katja Buhrer (AFR) 11 Nov 2009

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned boards that law reform might be needed to protect retail investors after $38 billion in capital raisings discriminated against small investors last financial year.

Small investors struggle to get fair treatment

Small investors struggle to get fair treatment

by The Australian 02 Nov 2009

IF you can work out an entirely fair way to allow retail investors the same access as institutional investors get to equity raisings, without stretching the issue timeframe out to the horizon, you're going to be popular.

Watching out for the smaller investor

Watching out for the smaller investor

by Katja Buhrer (AFR) 30 Oct 2009

UBS this week stole a march on its rivals in the equity capital market game after unveiling a $375 million raising by CSR . There has been no shortage of capital raisings over the past year, but this one had an interesting twist designed to put retail and institutional investors on ...

Punters got the rough end of the pineapple

Punters got the rough end of the pineapple

by Ian Verrender (Sydney Morning Herald) 29 Oct 2009

Our pollies love to invoke the Anzac spirit. It tugs at the national heartstrings and generates a warm inner glow about ourselves. John Howard was forever banging on about mateship, even if he didn't quite fit the blokey mould, while our Kev is constantly ...

Capital club: the men who control Australia's money markets

Capital club: the men who control Australia's money markets

by Sydney Morning Herald 18 Aug 2009

In the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse last September, share prices fell into a tailspin. Many of Australia's top companies had been holding out, hoping the market would recover, hoping their stocks would rise so they could raise new capital at a decent price.

Watchdogs stay silent amid multi-million dollar rip-off

Watchdogs stay silent amid multi-million dollar rip-off

by Courier Mail 07 Jul 2009

THE chairmen of ASIC and ASX have stood mute while the greatest insider' rip-off of mum and dad investors we have ever seen has been taking place this year. Billions of very real dollars have been ripped from these retail investors and transferred to institutional investors.