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Chartwell dir Hoy jailed 13 yrs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... provided by Hoy. Chartwell was a Geelong-based company that allegedly traded investor funds on local and global financial markets. ASIC said that Hoy operated one of Australia's largest ponzi schemes with investors owed in excess of $82 million, with ...

Finsia creates site for industry students

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... career decisions. Finsia said that the site also provides information on corporate finance and wholesale banking, financial markets, managed funds and superannuation, private wealth management and retail banking. There is also a blog featuring graduates ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Blink and you would have missed it. Financial markets are back in forward gear once more. They have been over the past three trading days inspite of the severe calamities and geo-political tensions that came their way not even a full three months into ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... apocalypse as we could get that although concerned, there hasn't been any observable and widespread panic in the financial markets. Sure the Nikkei-225 index plunged by 10.6 per cent on 15 March when its nuclear power plants threatened to blow - this ...

Japan shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
The still-unfolding disaster in Japan is sapping the optimism off financial markets. Stock markets rallied yesterday but it looks like they'll be down again today. Volatility is the order of today and would remain so for as long as strong aftershocks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... points, or 0.74 per cent, to 4,644 points. NEW YORK - Worsening fears about the nuclear crisis in Japan shook financial markets. Wall Street opened lower then dropped sharply in midmorning trading after the European Union's energy chief was quoted as ...

Share plummet overplayed - fund managers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... are concerned that this 'knee jerk' reaction is denting investors' portfolios unnecessarily. "The response of financial markets to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is becoming increasingly unrelated to the potential impact on the economy and Japan's ...

Ratings houses silent on Japan fund fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... too early to tell what the fallout from the Japan earthquake disaster will be on the superannuation industry. Financial markets have been roiled, affecting super fund investments. The Nikkei has fallen by more than 16 per cent since Monday. A flight ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... as 8.9) that triggered an equally forceful tsunami and now melting down of its nuclear reactors. A warning to financial markets to "beware the ides of March." According to enotes.com, "The importance of the ides of March for Caesar is that it is the ...

ASIC and govt launch MoneySmart.gov.au

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... financial decisions with 26 tools available including calculators, tool and mobile phone apps across a number of financial markets such as budgeting, saving, credit cards and loans, but also more complicated issues such as superannuation contributions ...