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Australian instos exposed to AML risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... agencies that results in an investor breaching an international trade ban. For example, Iran is a major facilitator of Middle East shipping, global trade and of course oil and energy exports, and it's much easier than many investors realise to indirectly ...

EM specialist enters Australian market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... are traditional Asia and BRIC exposures supplemented by up to 50 additional investible countries in Africa and the Middle East. They do this by focusing on tapping into the small to mid cap range that large firms don't invest into due to research resource ...

SWFs to reach $30tr in 20 years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... downs, notes Rainmaker in its upcoming Roundup report. Reflecting the dominance of resource revenue in SWF assets, the Middle East makes up 38% of the sector. In Asia SWFs are primarily used to manage fiscal and currency reserve. Nearly two-thirds of ...

Fidelity: Equities still a long-term option

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... institutions," he said. Fidelity Worldwide Investment is an asset manager with a global network spanning the US, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Fidelity and its subsidiaries manage over $220bn in funds under management as at 31 March ...

Lazard faces losses on Hastie collapse

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... of the companies that comprise the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) businesses in Australia as well as the Middle East which together employ approximately 4,700 people. "We are obliged to confirm Hastie Group's ability to fund trading before ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... soft patch, Europe was in crisis, Japan had the earthquake and the tsunami that blew up its nuclear reactors, the Middle East was in turmoil with the Arab Spring and there was talk that China would land hard. The authorities scrambled for a rescue. Central ...

Australian finance sector jobs plummet

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... is the second successive quarterly slowdown in the region, despite larger drops in the US, Central Europe and the Middle East. The cost-cutting drive behind the spate of banking redundancies in Australia in Q1 is likely to continue impacting the sector ...

SWFs jump 16% to $4.62tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... private equity projects are domiciled, nearly three-quarters of SWFs seeking the exposure are based in Asia or the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), highlighting how the petro dollar economies are increasingly integrated into the North American economies. ...

Indonesian inflation falls to 4.25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... Oil Price that the archipelago nation has to pay being 15% above budget forecasts due to geopolitical tension in the Middle East. Nonetheless, core inflation in Indonesia this year is down to 4.25%, almost half what it was two years ago notwithstanding ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... European sovereign debt crisis. Check. Tepid growth in America. Check. Slowdown to a crash landing in China. Check. Middle East, North Korea, oil. Check. These challenges were all there - and then some - yet Wall Street produced its best first quarter ...