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HSBC brings alts business Down Under

... a concentrated fund of funds focused on corporate events, such as mergers, restructurings, stressed and distressed securities, as well as activist managers. According to Stuart Davis, chief executive officer of HSBC Bank Australia, HAIL is the third ...

Securitised assets get RAMmed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... was driven from the liability side of the balance sheet. This was due to securitisers' limited ability to issue debt securities during the September quarter 2007," they said. The major driver of the asset fall was the inability of securitisers to raise ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... price index contract was seven points lower at 6364 on a volume of 5,580 contracts. Senior client advisor for Austock Securities Michael Heffernan said the market lacked firm direction. "It's been a bit choppy, which is not surprising given the fact ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... ill-founded, as the BSE has implemented a range of operational and governance innovations that should make even the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) take a close look. For example, the BSE was one of the first stock markets in the world to go fully ...

Schroders expands investment team

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... research Justin Halliwell. Steven Hur will join as a credit analyst within the fixed income team and report to hybrid securities portfolio manager Mik Kase. In September, Paul Taylor joined the Sydney based quantitative global equities team as a quantitative ...

Reverse mortgages, three years on

... full cost of borrowing against their property, according to a new survey. The research was conducted by the Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) as part of its ongoing monitoring of the sector. Since ASIC first surveyed the market in 2005 ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... agents though limited regulation meaning almost anyone can call themselves an adviser has forced the regulator, the Securities Exchanges Board of India (SEBI), to introduce a code of conduct for advisers. This expansion in investing accompanied by the ...

Alt assets boom in uncertain times

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... the past five years, global direct real estate averaged 12 per cent annual unlevered total returns, while real estate securities earned 26 per cent, far stronger than the equity market. The report states the past five years have seen real estate suffer ...

Financial Wisdom appoints head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... held similar positions at MLC Advice Solutions and ThreeSixty, as well as administrative roles with Garvan, Intervest Securities and AXA Funds Management. The appointment follows that of Frank O'Shannessy to South Australia state manager. Managing director ...

Macq targets Asian real estate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... within two years. In October, Ritson Ferguson managing director and chief investment officer at ING Clarion Real Estate Securities, said he expected global listed property returns between eight and 12 per cent in the coming year.