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Asia-Pacific buyouts build a head full of steam: Fitch

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
Following on the coat tails of a worldwide trend, leveraged buyout activity in the Asia-Pacific region is rising rapidly, according to Fitch Ratings. Fitch noted that compared to the leveraged buyout plays in the US and Europe the Asia-Pacific is still ...

APRA to flex its muscle with outsourcing deals

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
Under the terms of new prudential guidelines, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will have the power to conduct onsite inspections of companies undertaking outsourcing work for financial institutions under its supervision. But signaling ...

Former UBS head moves to Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse has appointed Marcel Kreis, formerly head of UBS Global Wealth Management in South East Asia and Pacific, as its new head of private banking Asia Pacific. Kreis will be based in Singapore and will report to Walter Berchtold, chief executive ...

Reverse mortgages not for inexperienced advisers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2006
Reverse mortgages should not be handled by anyone but the most qualified and skilled financial planner, and planners as a whole need to attain higher benchmark standards in order to manage the entire financial affairs of their clients. That is the message ...

Orbis launches local fund

Orbis Investment Management has signed up Equity Trustees as trustee for its first locally based fund - Orbis Global Equity Fund. Orbis has been in Australia since 2003 and already has $400 million in funds under management in its offshore funds from ...

HFA Octane Series 2 rated 'investment grade'

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has given the newly launched HFA Octane Series 2 fund an Assirt 'investment grade' rating. The fund of hedge funds was rated using S&P's classification system where returns and relative risk are compared against a traditional ...

WA finance broker found guilty of misleading statements

A director of failed finance broking firm Clifton Partners Finance was found guilty last week of making materially misleading statements in a prospectus realeased in early 2000. Harmer issued the prospectus to raise funds so that Perth-based Clifton ...

Midday market wrap: Local shares climb after gains overnight in US

WITH AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2003
The Australian share market opened higher today following a positive lead from key United States indices overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 8.2 points better off at 3189.6 by 1015 AEDT while the all ordinaries index had lifted 7.9 points ...