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Lehman Brothers banks on natural resources

Lehman Brothers Australia has hired a natural resources expert to head its Australian investment banking business. The group has appointed Shaun Treacy as the new managing director of investment banking. Prior to joining Lehman, Treacy worked for over ...

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
On the eve of the implementation of the most significant provision of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act, the regulator Austrac has conceded that there is a big loophole in the law. Austrac issued a statement yesterday, saying ...

Lehman Brothers renames Grange

Lehman Brothers has renamed its Australian business, Grange Securities, to Lehman Brothers Australia. The re-branding follows Lehman's acquisition of Grange Securities and Grange Asset Management in March this year. Since then, Lehman Brothers has hired ...

Singapore mega-fund IC tender due

The Singapore Central Provident fund's board is calling for investment consultancy firms to tender for the service of providing consultancy under the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS). The mega-fund, which has more than $100 billion in member account balance ...

Futures contracts director caught without AFSL

ASIC has taken a court order against a Tasmanian-based company and director for providing financial training in futures contracts without the proper financial licence. The Federal Court of Australia, in Melbourne, made interim orders restraining Oxford ...

ING appoints first chief operating officer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
ING Australia (INGA) has appointed ANZ's Bangalore-based operations technology and shared services managing director Fred Bertram as its first chief operating officer. Bertram will head up ING's new customer solutions business section, which houses ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
When rappers and supermodels choose Euros over the greenback, what does that say about the direction of the US economy? The world's richest model, Gisele BA1/4ndchen is apparently insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar ...

Macq goes global

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
Macquarie's continued push into overseas markets has helped the group post a record half-yearly profit of $1.06 billion after tax. The results are a 45 per cent increase over the group's $730 million profit for the same period last year. The profit ...

Low frills, high returns

In a world where many fund managers pump performance through frenzied financial engineering, boutique manager Hyperion keeps it simple to stay on top. For a fund manager that's ranked number one in Australian equities by Mercer for the 10 years to 31 ...

JPMorgan appoints team to lead NZ push

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
JPMorgan Treasury and Securities Services (TSS) has announced a new executive team to help lead its expansion into New Zealand next year. Former AXA chief operating officer Jane Perry has been appointed head of worldwide securities services (WSS) for ...