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Macquarie Private Bank scoops up Merrill Lynch MD

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... spent three years at Credit Suisse where he headed the investment bank's Houston Office and worked as a director and regional branch manager of private banking. Eric Schimpf, head of Macquarie Private Wealth said he would bring a wealth of knowledge ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... issues gained 1.10 per cent or 8.90 points to 815.73. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares closed higher on Tuesday, in line with regional stocks and snapping a five-day losing streak. The benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 251.08 points, or 1.16 per cent, to 21,850.59 ...

Advance Asian equity fund on hold as personnel changes

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... investment team. Jan de Bruijn has replaced Liem as head of Asia-Pacific equities and will also manage LGI's other flagship regional portfolios. Lim Fang Suan has been installed as a nominated back-up manager. "We are disappointed to see the re-occurrence ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... short-term liquidity and restructuring risks are negligible given the depth of international commitment to maintaining regional financial stability. Moody's believes that the appropriate repositioning of Greece's rating should therefore be based ...

Axioma branches out

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... portfolio rebalancing and analysis tools for financial services industry, has announced the launch of its new Global and Regional Risk Models (v 2.1) and the opening of an Australian office. The new Global and Regional Risk Models (v 2.1) include expanded ...

CommInsure hires AMP manager to strengthen retail advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
CommInsure has appointed former AMP Financial Planning regional manager Andrew Kennedy as its new head of retail advice distribution. CommInsure has also appointed Mark Sheldon to the newly-created role of head of business retention and growth, to help ...

State Street secures REST lending deal

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... extensive domestic and global holdings require specific support and technical expertise," said Francesco Squillacioti, regional business director, securities finance, State Street, Asia Pacific. State Street has US$2.3 trillion of lendable assets and ...

HSBC expand trade with new head role

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... Saunders will report locally to Andrew Skinner, head of trade and supply chain, HSBC Australia and functionally to the regional commodity and structured trade finance hub in Singapore. "The appointment of John Saunders to lead HSBC's commodities and ...

Schroders move $25bn to single platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... operations process and tools and the local book of business based in Sydney were addressed by placing Australia onto the regional platform "Some issues were the requirements of Australian specific instruments such as Hybrids and local tax reporting. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... billion, which Austar's board says is appropriate for a change of control transaction. Foxtel offered $1.52 in cash for the regional operator, compared with Austar's closing price on Wednesday of $1.265. Austar shares were untraded following the bid. ...