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Ex-Macq fund manager gets jail for insider trading

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... contacted ASIC in 2008 but the regulatory agency was unable to investigate until 2010 because de Silva was not in the country. When contacted yesterday by Financial Standard, Macquarie Group refused to name the fund previously managed by de Silva. This ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... and very early in 2011, but it'll be back again with the resignation of Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates over the country's parliament rejected his austerity package. And before the last month of the last quarter of 2011, Portugal will report ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... radiation continues to leak from its nuclear power stations. Not only that, the price of oil remains high - a negative for a country that imports all - yes, all - of its crude requirement. Yet the Nikkei-225 index is down only 5.1 per cent this year. ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that could afford to raise interest rates at any time if necessary because of the country's economic strength. There's Australia's growth premium. Despite the momentary disruption to economic activity caused by the ...

PineBridge enjoys strong inflows in EM debt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... important to point out, said Mittal, is that EM debt providers are the big brands in the region - household names in the country they're based. These corporates issuing debt in Asia or Latin America have predictable revenues and often have stronger balance ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Super fund signals future role in govt policy

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... another turning point in superannuation history when it created a new 'head of policy' role, yet another sign that the country's largest super fund is taking on a leadership role in an industry set to manage trillions of dollars in the decades ahead. ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... Japan is just starting to calibrate the cost of the 11 March disaster. The World Bank estimates that it would take the country five years to rebuild at a staggering cost of US$235 billion. And that's only for Japan. There are now legitimate talks of ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... inflation than the expected disruptions to growth. The Peoples Bank of China even raised the reserve requirement for the country's largest banks by 50 bps to 20 per cent last week. Many expect an interest rate hike to follow as Beijing continues to rein ...

A decade on, Frontier turns new leaf

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... 28 clients to a 40-staff asset consultancy managing more than $110 billion on behalf of 19 clients, which includes the country's largest industry super funds. Proof that they've added value as an asset consultant, Frontier points to data showing that ...