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Two ANZ appointments for merged Asia/Pac business

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... New Guinea and the Pacific North West region. Prior to this, he was an adviser with ANZ's partnership bank AmBank in Malaysia and spent over 30 years with Standard Chartered Bank in senior executive roles covering the Middle East, North America, Africa ...

Who you know overshadows rules: Freehills view on Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... institutions have in the region, said Salmah Mydin, head of investment management supervision at the Securities Commission, the Malaysia financial regulator. "I'm struggling to think of any Australian managers operating in Malaysia, which is surprising ...

J.P. Morgan buys into online shopping

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... internet sites and replicates them in other countries. Lazada is an online department store with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand. Considered to be a replica of Amazon, Lazada caters for everything from consumer electronics ...

Sukuk demand to reach US$900bn in five years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... Ringgit-denominated Sukuk, which accounts for more than two thirds of total global issuance, according to the EY report, with Malaysia regularly tapping into the Sukuk market to support its infrastructure development program. The Sukuk market is largely ...

IAG urges Asia focus

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... will get there are already market laggards. IAG is currently targeting six priority markets in Asia including Thailand, Malaysia, India, China, Vietnam and Indonesia. Wilkins said that IAG currently has $460 million investment in five of those six countries ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... company was granted a temporary licence for its controversial $US800 million ($A785.58 million) rare earths refinery in Malaysia. The price of gold in Sydney was at $US1,1692.92 per fine ounce, up 66 US cents from $US1,692.26 on Tuesday. National turnover ...

ACCI calls for right to sue foreign govs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... lobbying for a change in policy on ISDS in trade agreements since 2011. Since that time, Australia has signed a FTA with Malaysia and is currently in the process of negotiating agreements with China, India, Japan, Korea and Indonesia among others.

Cross-border super collaboration on way

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... market." Wang's comments followed a two-day summit attended by key executives from the public pension funds of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Hong Kong and Korea, which together represent half of total funds under management in Asia. "There was ...

Goodman partners with Malaysian pension fund

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... Goodman retaining an interest in the portfolio on an initial 40/60 basis. The Employees Provident Fund (EPF), one of Malaysia's largest pension funds, will hold the majority share. "Major global investors continue to target high-quality income producing ...

MAFTA provides new Asian opportunities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
The Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement (MAFTA), gives Australian financial services a much greater opportunity than the wider AANSFTA (ASEAN Australia New Zealand Free Trade Agreement) under which a previous 30% ownership cap was negotiated. "I ...