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Former Deutsche exec launches investment firm

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The former head of equity derivatives and trading at Deutsche Bank Sydney, Peter Kennedy, has launched a new investment firm, Kennedy Investments. Kennedy Investment is based on a "cyclical" approach to investing, and will be open to individual investors ...

US regulator lifts hedge fund advertising ban

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... to universally define, they are often distinguished from managed investment schemes through their use of gearing, derivatives, short-selling and other complex instruments. They often seek to provide a return which is uncorrelated to equity and bond markets ...

ASIC finalises OTC derivatives reporting rules

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued its final rules around over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trade reporting for financial institutions. The regime is set out in a package of rules and guidance released by ASIC today ...

ASIC winds up insolvent derivatives issuer

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained orders in the Federal Court to wind up Sydney-based derivatives issuer Apex Derivatives. Apex promoted trading in forex and contracts for difference (CFD) derivatives via its website. ...

Stronger Super look-through requirements may erode competitive edge

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... through into those pooled products, and disclose the underlying holdings in those products themselves," Miller said. Derivatives will also pose problems. "Looking at derivatives out of context is really dangerous. You need to understand the reason a ...

Global ETF regulation proposed

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... ETFs, which are ETFs that don't hold underlying assets but which meet their investment objective by entering into a derivatives contract with counterparty, IOSCO has said regulators should review whether rules governing their local securities exchanges ...

PGI updates fixed income fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... allocate outside of high yield and still find pockets of products that can give you relative value." The product uses derivatives as a strategy to protect the fund from sudden spikes in the market, a feature that comes as a response to investors' concerns ...

Former Bell Potter adviser sentenced to 5 years jail

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... contracts with individuals and self managed superannuation funds (SMSF) to invest in listed Australian equities and derivatives. According to ASIC, Evans provided false trading and performance reports, failed to repay the balance of the proceeds to the ...

ASIC to accept submissions for 'hedge fund' definition

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... characteristics of hedge funds are the complexity of the investment strategy or its structure, the use of debt, the use of derivatives subject to limited carve-outs, the use of short selling, or the rights to charge a performance fee. ASIC considers ...

IG offers Bitcoin bet

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
UK-based derivatives trader IG is introducing a "limited risk binary" on volatile internet currency Bitcoin. Described by US tech publication DailyTech as "a peer-to-peer internet-driven cryptocurrency", Bitcoin is notoriously unstable. It soared in ...