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CheckRisk opens in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... portfolios and makes them much more aware of deep risk factors, cross-contamination and implicit exposures that may be embedded inside their portfolios. Prior to joining CheckRisk, Carroll was a former fund chief executive and investment manager chief ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
The Indian economy might have had a bad year in 2012 but its stock market continues to soar, outperforming its BRIC counterparts. The Indian economy's growth rate has come down from the double-digit pace recorded in 2010 to a mere 3.2% in the year to ...

Tax consultant cops two years jail for insider trading

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
Former PwC tax consultant, Nicholas Glynatsis was convicted on nine charges of insider trading by the NSW Supreme Court yesterday. In December 2011 Nicholas Glynatsis, of Russell Lea, Sydney, pleaded guilty to the charges of insider trading between ...

Insider trading gets former J.P. Morgan staffer jail

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
A former J.P. Morgan employee has been sentenced to 18 months jail by the NSW District Court after she gave inside information to a friend while working at the investment bank. Elisa Rietbergen, of Kensington, NSW gave confidential information to her ...

Advisers leaving out ESG

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Financial advisers should share some of the blame for the slow uptake of retail-level Environmental, Social and Governance investments by their clients, said industry insiders. It isn't necessarily true that responsible investments mean less return ...

Financial Standard names FS Smileys finalists

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
The 2012 finalists of the Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence Scholarship (or "the Smileys"), sponsored by Zurich, were announced today ahead of the awarding of the Scholarship in Melbourne next week. The 12 finalists ...

BOQ not a takeover target: Grimshaw

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... Queensland was exposed to bad debts in the southeast corridor of Queensland, it still had a great future, Grimshaw told ABC's Inside Business program on Sunday. "We believe we have seen the worst," he said. "It won't be an instantaneous return to 2006-like ...

Non-aligned advisers driving new platforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... non-aligned advisers. These new platforms will transform the wealth management industry," said Page. Innovation is also occurring inside institutional wealth groups, but the smaller companies have to innovate to survive and seem less inhibited about ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Take one central banker's lack of faith at the recent action of the institution he serves, add rumours that a region threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... over whether or not Big Ben will QE or not has got this little ben stumped. For I don't see any point in guessing what's inside the head of the head of the most powerful central bank in the world. Financial market activity over these past few days tells ...