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Liquidnet rollout gains ASIC approval

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... Liquidnet's Asian coverage, with plans to launch in Australia following its rollout across Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea later this year. The company said it will continue to pursue its application for an Australian Markets License, which would ...

Confidence rising in emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... investors in 13 countries across Asia, including Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and China. China and India represented the most confident countries in the region, with 70 per cent of respondents ...

Korea the next big thing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
Korea could be the next investment frontier for Australian institutional investors, according to Perry Ha, managing director of American venture capital company DFJAthena. In Australia to raise funds for his AU$125 million Korean venture capital fund ...

Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... spends around $3 billion dollars a year on Queensland coal and WA iron ore. Fed up with costly supply bottlenecks, South Korea's biggest steel maker has threatened to take its business elsewhere. More recently mining giant Rio Tinto issued a public threat ...

Liquidnet trading breaks mould

... trillion in equity assets. It plans to launch trading platforms in five Asian markets namely in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Singapore by the third quarter of 2007. The Australian office is jointly headed by Sam Macqueen, formerly head of equities ...

Cranky customers over choked supply chain

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... Queensland's Premier Beattie to sort out the bottlenecks that are strangling the flow of resources to and from our ports. South Korea's biggest steel maker has already threatened to vote with its feet and take its business elsewhere if Australia fails ...

Economic round up: savings follow interest rates

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... bank's 2 per cent target for over a year. Central banks in most countries, with the exception of the United States and South Korea, have all continued raising interest rates throughout 2006 to temper inflation. This and strong corporate profits have ...

Economic round-up: Creaming cheese exports

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
... dollar flirting around the US86c mark, it's keeping a lid on inflation but exporters, except those sending cream cheese to Korea, are really feeling the bite. Our dollar's strength is positively impacting imports, and price increases of imported goods ...

Global indices are dinosaurs: Schroders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... investors access to relatively large cap equities, he said, and totally ignored some countries' equity markets, such as Korea. As a result, investors missed out on hundreds of basis points in potential returns. "Remember that we're looking at 15,000 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
Some key data that the Reserve Bank of Australia will need for its decision on the next interest rate move, being retail trade activity, has just been released and it shows the January rebound of a revised 0.8 per cent which is nearly as high as its ...