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Fundies caught in $5m heist

SFC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... manipulated the share price of CCB, it also short sold 104 million Bank of China shares following advance notice from placing agents about two placements of BOC shares. The fund manager was explicitly told not to deal in BOC shares after receiving the ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
A US retirement assembly has backed a bill treating placement agents as "lobbyists", in a bid to help protect the integrity of the nation's two largest public pension funds. Assembly member Ed Hernandez, who helped author the bill, said the vote meant ...

NSW man sentenced for early super release

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... used the KSF to obtain early access to these benefits by withdrawing and distributing the funds to the superannuants and agents who helped him. Kassongo retained over $605,000 for himself by way of a commission. At the time the KSF received the benefits ...

Asset consultants under fee pressures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... answered 'yes' and that relatively speaking, asset consultants are remunerated well below the fees received by the other agents in the investment chain. If you look at it like an inverted pyramid, almost, we would be getting paid right at the tip, he ...

AXA pushes into Romanian life market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... million in premiums. Launched in 1997, Omniasig Life sells protection products that are sold through a network of 1,400 life agents. The purchase is expected to close in the first half of this year following regulatory approval. AXA said the Romanian ...

... and transparency strategy to benefit Aussie funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
Three leading placement agents in Australia have filed a joint submission to the Cooper Review, stressing that the system in Australia is more transparent and markedly different to the US. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, one of the ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... investment partners. They were also obtained under CalPERS new policy that mandates disclosure on the use of placement agents and fees on proposed new investments and amendments to existing investments which occur after May 2009. "In light of recent ...

Jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... Australia -- have cranked up their printing presses, which at the very least changed the economic dynamics and economic agents' psychology. Notice the sharp jump in business and consumer sentiment since then - and the rally in risk assets. But then again ...

Virgin Super eyes SME market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... market. "Our fund can play an important part in the industry because we are an alternative to the institutions and aligned agents," he said. "Some of those things are also important to our customers such as daily unit pricing, liquidity and passive investment ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... Street give thanks that the housing market is reversing its cycle. House buying generate spending that generates jobs. Think agents' commissions, legal documentations, furnitures, white goods, appliances, painters, plumbers, gardeners, etc. Thank you. ...