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Lehman Bros wins Japanese trading approval

Lehman Brothers has received approval to trade certified emission reductions (CERs) in Japan, becoming the only global investment bank able to provide liquidity for the Asian and European carbon markets. The company is the first foreign financial firm ...

Bell Financial Group to buy Tricom

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
Bell Financial Group announced today that it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire 100 per cent of embattled futures broking firm, Tricom Group. "Should all conditions precedent be satisfied, Bell Financial Group would provide a capital infusion ...

New CEO, debut structure for MDS

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
MDS Financial Group has appointed David Galtieri as chief executive retail financial services, and embarked on a board structure overhaul to expand its business. Galtieri was formerly head of sales and education for market information specialist Bourse ...

New partner for First Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
First Quadrant, an investment management firm specialising in active equity management and global macro strategies, has appointed Jia Ye as a new partner in the company. Ye, who currently holds the position of chief investment strategist, will remain ...

Not much of a fix from the freeze

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
There may still be plenty of questions over the virtue and mechanics of the planned "freezing" of loan interest rates for several hundred thousand distressed home loan borrowers in the US. The US government formally outlined the plan this morning without ...

The future of super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
Fund size, a well-defined management structure and a flexible investment portfolio are the key ingredients of an "optimal" super fund, according to a leading expert in global pension management. Speaking at the Investment Management Consultants Association ...

Asia marching on faster than expected

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
Growing intra-region trade within emerging markets is pushing Asia to the centre of world financial affairs faster than we realise. "Fifty per cent of all world trade now has an Asian leg," said Craig Weeks, senior vice president of global trade services ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The Indian stock market has grown six-fold in four years and current sentiment is for it to keep going, but a big question for Australian investors is whether its governance mechanisms can absorb the explosive growth and maintain market integrity. Raising ...

China acts on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
The Chinese Government has formed its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) fund as part of its strategy to foster and finance projects for climate change. Inline with its Kyoto Protocol obligations, China's CDM fund was launched last week and will use ...

Frontier appoints four new analysts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
Frontier Investment Consulting (Frontier), has grown its investment research arm appointing four new analysts to the team. Erin Cullino, Tom Frederick, Cara Maxworthy and Sarkis Tepeli all start in September. This week, Frontier lost the ACT Department ...