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ASIC bans adviser and charges former director

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
ASIC bans a former adviser for market manipulation while a former company director has been charged with dishonest conduct. Former client adviser, Lim Theam Chye of Melbourne, is banned from providing financial services for five years after ASIC concluded ...

QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... also appeared a bit weaker." In sum, the minutes' message is that the Fed has already decided to send QE2 to battle the "forces of evil". The only question now is QE2's size and form. But what happens when QE2 comes and it's not the superhero financial ...

Hedge fund adviser gets $2.7m fine

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... prevents short selling that can "reduce proceeds received by companies and shareholders by artificially depressing the market price shortly before the company prices its public offering." Rule 105 ensures that offering prices are set by natural forces ...

Real assets are the future of investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... and highly conscious of the rapidly changing geopolitical status of the world if they are to continue to succeed in the market, said Dr Phillipa Malmgren when speaking at the MLC Implemented Consulting Conference yesterday. Unforeseen and unpredictable ...

African dev't needs private equity: Mobius

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... and who will move to encourage a market orientated economy where the larger part of the economy is determined by market forces, are required."

RIP May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... fundamentals in America, the strong China, India and Asian economies -- and Australia? Couldn't they serve as offsetting forces of strength for global finance and economics? US consumer sentiment, manufacturing, housing, personal income and corporate ...

Fund fees not coming down: Cooper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
Super System Review chair Jeremy Cooper said market forces in super aren't enough to drive the best outcome for members, arguing that contrary to industry claims, fund fees have gone up, not down, in the past decade. In his speech at the Committee for ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... keystroke, the machines went to work, sending off a chain reaction of stop loss selling from one stock to another, from one market to another. Representatives of the major US exchanges and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are still doing ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... fund, which Burns said sifts through 4,400 'eligible' stocks around the world ("that's 4.5 times the size of the Australian market," he said) to find the 25 or so stocks that make it to the portfolio. To date, the fund has $10 million in it, largely ...

AMP Cap, Cbus and Galileo join forces

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... facilities provided this year for a residential property. He said the apartment complex has received good support from the market. "We are well advanced on the sale of apartments," said Phillips. AMP Capital Investors is invested through its Select Property ...