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PM repeats calls to make Australia a fin services hub

... quality of our management, the depth of our expertise, the sheer size of pools of funds under management, means that this country and [Sydney] in particular becomes a natural take-off point to make Australia a financial services hub for wider East Asia," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... ($A155.46 billion) has investors worried that Europe would have an even tougher time assembling an aid package if a larger country such as Spain or Portugal were to get in trouble. Traders are concerned that weakening economies in Europe could jeopardize ...

Fundies caught in $5m heist

SFC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
Hong Kong's regulator moves to ban New York-based Tiger Asia Management from dealing shares in the country ever again after it caught the fund's directors guilty of insider trading - twice. Last August, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) applied ...

Govt infrastructure fund falls well short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... Management, said the fund is a positive move, but the $700 million annual commitment is not enough to make a major impact on the country's resource industry. "Port Waratah Coal Services is spending $700 million just to expand their coal load to 20 million ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... sectors of the Australian economy, Dr. Henry produced a 1000-page template with 138 recommendations on simplifying the country's tax system. All well and good...no one will argue about applying the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle, especially when ...

CFS GAM hires AMP Capital ESG researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... across asset classes globally on investment processes in the relation to ESG issues. "Nick is one of the few people in the country that possesses both ESG and buy side equities experience," said Amanda McCluskey, head of sustainability and responsible ...

MLC launches high income protection

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... Merrill Lynch/CapGemini wealth report. But while many Australians earn more relative to their overseas counterparts, the country's metropolitan cities also rank among the most expensive places to live in and have witnessed soaring property prices despite ...

Don't put all eggs in China basket: Gonzalez

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... opportunity that China presents remains enticing even though some economists and portfolio managers are questioning the country's actual growth rate. "While the actual number might not be right, it doesn't change the growth story. China may post 10 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... growth elsewhere. Standard & Poor's said it was lowering its rating on Greece's debt to BB+ from BBB-. That means that the country's debt does not carry the investment grade tag. The agency is also warning debtholders that they only have an average chance ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... Greece... and Ireland, and Portugal and Spain... and all other high deficit and heavily indebted sovereign countries. But is a country still a sovereign if creditors dictate its policies? Come to think of it, what does it say about the present Sino-American ...