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Trio: ASIC evidence insufficient to prosecute Flader

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... collateralised, leveraged credit default swap agreements. ASIC said the investments failed during the global financial crisis.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... of Monday's losses, after the central bank cut official interest rates to their lowest level since the global financial crisis. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 58.7 points, or 1.47 per cent, to 4,043.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Consortium buys Challenger Infrastructure Fund assets

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... products. "LBC has proven to be a valuable long-term, core infrastructure asset that performed well during the Global Financial Crisis and global recession," said Graham Matthews, chief investment officer, Access Capital Advisers. "It is precisely this ...

Shareholder backlash hits Macquarie MGU

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... in the interest of all stockholders," said a statement issued by Macquarie. "MGU notes that, since the Global Financial Crisis, the Fund's discount has narrowed significantly while at the same time it has increased its distributions to stockholders." ...

Investor appetite for risk continues to flat-line

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... beyond capital growth," he said adding that the banks hybrid securities have been in high demand. With the Global Financial Crisis cycle that has been going on for about four and a half years and in regards to what is happening globally today, Orrock ...

NAB winds up private equity arm

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... who moved over to the division of NAB prior to ANZ's withdrawal from private equity in 2008 during the global financial crisis. It is understood that ICS employed only around eight people and the closure represents the last of direct private equity investments ...

Unstable markets demand more from COOs

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... officer, according to La Trobe Financial. "There have already been a couple of behavioural cycles since the global financial crisis. The first cycle was marked by a scramble for liquidity followed by a slow reaction to the opportunities available from ...

MSCI risk model targets volatility

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... always quite slow to adapt," said Kennedy. "That usually wasn't such a big deal, but it was during the global financial crisis. Volatility changed so quickly and by so much that it made your forecasts and what you actually received in terms of risk and ...

BlackRock funds target new investment climate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... unlikely we will see a return to the highly liquid, low volatility market conditions experienced before the Global Financial Crisis. We have entered into a new age of investing and it is time for new investment thinking," said Michael McCorry, head of ...

Property syndicates attracting overseas investment

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... Charter Hall Direct Property. Stacker said that the retail syndicate market has changed notably since the global financial crisis, with investors seeking to invest into quality assets with lower gearing, conservative payout ratios, increased transparency ...