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Austock appoints former Merrill chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... head in 2002. A year later he moved to Hong Kong with the firm to become head of equities and equity trading in the Asia Pacific region. He returned to Australia in 2006 as chief executive of Merrill Lynch Australia and following the acquisition by Bank ...

AXA AP angles for bigger slice of Aus market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
AXA Asia Pacific's full-year report today shed some light on why it's being courted by National Australia Bank and AMP, but also how it plans to grow its local revenues in the next few years. This morning the group announced that its profit after tax ...

Islamic finance crucial for Australia: Crean

GOVERNMENT RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... Islamic finance market is a crucial part of the Australian Government's strategy to make Australia a financial hub in Asia Pacific, according to Simon Crean, minister for trade. At the launch of the Government's booklet, Islamic Finance, Crean said Australia ...

ACCC seeks more info on AMP and NAB bids

ACCC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... the competition issues identified during their research of the separate proposed acquisitions by AMP and NAB of AXA Asia Pacific. The ACCC has invited further submissions to the Statement of Issues up until 26 February this year. The commission hopes ...

Asia Pac property assets draw mandate appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... property market. "Historically, they have looked overseas [for investments]," said Jacobson. Kenneth Tsang, head of Asia Pacific Strategy at LaSalle Investment Management, said the AP region will provide investors with plenty of opportunities this year. ...

Ascalon buys more stake in H3

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... Macro and CTA Hedge Forum now underway in New York, where Mathew Kaleel is the only boutique fund manager in the Asia Pacific region who will address delegates," Landman said. H3 Global, which was also named winner of Standard & Poor's "Emerging Fund ...

Instinet close to signing two major transition mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... execution managers because it's super money and it belongs to everybody," said Glenn Lesko, chief executive at Instinet Asia Pacific. "If you're not analysing the quality of your trading then you're not doing a proper service to the public."

Financial services execs gain Aus day honours

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... performing arts. Mark Johnson, former deputy chair at Macquarie Group was also awarded an AO for his contribution to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Donald Argus, former chief executive at NAB, was ...

Sec lending to split from custody

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... from securities lending and cash collateral management. Giselle Awad, senior vice president business development, Asia Pacific at eSecLending, said increased calls for transparency and specialised expertise are prompting instos to unbundle their custodial ...

Credit Suisse appoints Aussie for asset management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Australian, Neil Harvey, has returned to Credit Suisse as managing director and head of Asia Pacific and head of emerging markets global for its asset management business after a stint in a number of other Asia Pacific firms. Harvey comes back to Credit ...