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Second Fincorp director not guilty

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Fincorp company director, Jacob Quigley, has been found not guilty, just four weeks after the firm's former chief executive was sentence to prison. Quigley, the former finance director of Fincorp Investments, was found not guilty of breaching his duties ...

Grant Samuel bags $800 million mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Epoch Investment Partners, a global strategic partner of Grant Samuel Funds Management (GSFM), has received an $800 million mandate from AMP Capital for its Global Equity Shareholder Yield strategy. AMP Capital is investing in the fund, popular for ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
A former billionaire US hedge fund player has been found guilty of a spate of insider trading charges and could be slapped with a 19.5 year jail sentence. Raj Rajaratnam, who co-founded the New York-based hedge fund management firm, Galleon Group, has ...

Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
"I will follow you Follow you wherever you may go..." -Ricky Nelson Why oh why does Wall Street continue to insist that rising commodity prices - particularly that of crude oil - is good for its health? Perhaps it's because today's Friday the 13th. ...

Ex UBS managers resurface for Bennelong small caps fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Bennelong Funds Management has joined forces with former UBS portfolio managers John Campbell and Jeremy Bendeich to launch an Australian small caps fund. Campbell and Bendeich, who have been on gardening leave since departing the UBS Small Companies ...

Government applauds ASIC trading rules

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
The Government has given its approval to ASIC's new draft of market integrity rules for equity exchange markets, which includes greater scrutiny on dark pool trading. ASIC has produced a framework of rules in anticipation of new market traders being ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
The Australian stock market is tipped to open higher, following a strong US lead, before slipping back into the red as the high Australian dollar continues to put a dampener on local trade. At 0730 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
1.00,1.03,1.05,1.08,1.10,1.20 - no these are not random numbers. These are the numbers marking the Australian dollar's recorded fresh - and fresher - after-float highs against its big brother, the US dollar. The last time I wrote about the value of ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Uh-oh, this is the last day for equity investors to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away". An article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some ...

Great Southern case rages on

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Investors in a class action against failed agribusiness firm Great Southern live to fight another day after access to new documents has been approved. In a hearing held April 4, former Great Southern directors, Peter Patrikeos and Jeffrey Mews were ...