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Australia is world leader in treasury: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... and how are they set up. "A large number of treasuries in Australia are hosting their global treasury centers out of the country, which means that a lot of Australian treasuries have gone multinational on managing this operation and this is a good thing," ...

Jobs a-plenty but not if Gillard could help it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... only expression one could make when one saw the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on the state of the country's labour market. Wow indeed for the Australian economy added more than seven times the 10,000 workers economists expected ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... left of the United Kingdom on google maps is making big strides of its own, and its name is Ireland. Yes, Virginia the country known as 'The Celtic Tiger' that's turned into 'The Celtic Pussy Cat' at the height of the European sovereign debt crisis. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... reports that Japan's main opposition party would vote against one of the government's nominations for deputy governor of the country's central bank. Hong Kong shed 1.46 per cent, or 333.95 points, to end at 22,556.65, while Shanghai fell 0.99 per cent ...

Managed accounts set for an overhaul

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
For the first time in nine years, the country's financial services regulator is placing the managed accounts sector through a comprehensive review, addressing grey areas and fixing major drawbacks that have long derailed the sector's growth. Institutions ...

Gerard Doherty resigns from Fidelity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
Fidelity country head Gerard Doherty has resigned from his post with immediate effect, having served five years with the investment manager. The group would not comment on the circumstances surrounding Doherty's departure saying only that it was a 'private ...

Former Hunter Hall managers gather new FUM in Morphic

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... States, Japan, Philippines and India. "There will be times where we think we can find a lot of good opportunities in a country but we see we are overexposed in that country so we will have to use the overlay to take away the country risk," Lowenstein ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... American pension funds is 3.7 per cent of total assets. Regulation on private equity investments is different from one country to the next, Preqin research found. Mexican pension funds can only invest in domestic private equity and can't allocate capital ...

Time for Japan sceptics to think again

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... also believes that support US for Japanese business and the Japanese publics desire to overturn a negative view of their country in China will be supportive of pro-business policies. After more than 20 years of a protracted deflationary environment ...

AustralianSuper threatens to sue the Future Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... pre-emptive rights, said the Australian Financial Review. AustralianSuper is the largest not-for-profit super fund in the country with $60 billion in funds under management, after a merger with AGEST Super was completed this year.