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Kenya budgets right for investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
There are more winners than losers in the first Budget announced since the formation of Kenya's first coalition government, with local and foreign investors first in line to benefit. The group said in a report that household consumers will benefit from ...

Friendster to fundster

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
Fund managers should adopt a Google-style approach to encourage fresh thinking within their business, especially in a world where investing is truly global and Web 2.0 is a key investment research tool. Speaking at the IFSA conference yesterday, Richard ...

RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... banks is they can raise short term funding through the RBA. Non-banks need to be in a position to access the same liquidity." Kim Cannon, managing director of FirstMac, said, "We hear the Treasurer talk about competition, but we're it." The ASF, however ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... the Centro Properties Group shareholder class action case is expected to resume in the Federal Court. FOXTEL Chief Executive Kim Williams will deliver a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce Business Luncheon in Melbourne. In Sydney, Fairfax Media ...

Moody's takes action after ratings blunder

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
Moody's Investor Services is taking legal action against a number of its employees and improving its rating processes after it bungled the ratings of 11 European constant proportion debt obligations (CPDO) worth approximately $1 billion. After testing ...

Super funds to raise hedge fund weighting

... markets have drastically changed since January 2006, when the earlier survey was conducted. Overall, AIMA Australia Chairman Kim Ivey said the findings show that super funds are still pouring money into hedge funds despite "concerted criticism" of the ...

New business head at Legg Mason

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Legg Mason Australia has appointed Annalisa Clark to the role of acting business head of the asset management firm. Clark, currently the joint business head of Legg Mason Australia, has been with the company for 12 years and is currently responsible ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open sharply higher as Wall Street surged after The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) cut its main lending rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.25 per cent. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher according to the March SPI futures index, and after New York staged a late rally to come back from falls that followed the Bear Sterns fire sale. In London overnight, base metals were significantly ...

Genesys consolidates two practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... Perth based financial practice Aspire2. The transaction included a combination of equity and debt in which Malcolm Davis and Kim Hunter, principals in a Genesys firm, merged with another Genesys practice, HLM. This merger allows Bruce Langoulant, HLM ...