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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... percent. HONG KONG - Stocks fell, as a four-day gaining streak led investors to pocket recent gains, while global lender HSBC sank further amid deteriorating credit markets. The Hang Seng Index closed down 1.61 per cent, or 389.18 points, at 23,759.25. ...

Client service before compliance: Bradley

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... compliance and realign its practices with investor interests or risk further regulation, according to Graham Bradley, chairman of HSBC Bank Australia. "Increased compliance while a nuisance is a small price to pay for this guaranteed growth the industry ...

Investors swarm to Asian hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... with the greatest number of hedge funds. Morgan Stanley has been named the largest prime broker for Asian hedge funds, while HSBC received the title of largest fund administrator. Globally, hedge funds attracted a record $218.6 billion in new investor ...

Asia's de-coupling is on track

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... of their GDPs have greater exposure to a US downturn than China and India with 8 per cent and 2 per cent respectively. But HSBC economist, Robert Prior-Wandesford, said Malaysia's ability to grow GDP from 5.7 per cent at the end of 2006 to 6.7 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... expected US interest rate cut, while a capital injection into struggling global financial firms fuelled buying in the likes of HSBC. The Hang Seng Index finished up 725.74 to 29,226.84 points. WELLINGTON - Early losses on the New Zealand sharemarket ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

... becomes very difficult thereafter to be absolutely certain where it is," said Ian Harris, head of product development at HSBC Securities Services in London, in a proxy voting report. Chad Spitler, associate director in corporate governance and proxy ...

Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... G7 sovereign bonds while state-owned enterprises are buying stakes in companies as diverse as General Electric Plastics, HSBC bank and Malaysia's Maxis telecommunications group. This may only be the tip of the iceberg, to mix metaphors for the desert ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... points. HONG KONG - Investors sold off Hong Kong stocks as they fretted about what more would come from the credit crisis after HSBC Holdings sought to bail out its two structured investment vehicles with funding of up to $35 billion. The Hang Seng Index ...

HSBC brings alts business Down Under

HSBC joins the growing list of alternatives specialists in Australia with its newly established business, HSBC Alternative Investments Limited (HAIL). HAIL Australia will distribute funds of hedge funds (FOHFs) to local wholesale investors and cater ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... slashing profit forecasts by 23 per cent and Shinsei Bank's first-half profits plummeting 40 per cent on last year. Meanwhile, HSBC's European arm announced $3.8 billion in write-downs, but the bank will see these losses more than offset by revenue growth ...