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Real estate gets Hi Q

... (RECP) has launched an income fund called 'Hi Q' that aims to deliver a high 10.63 per cent income per year by adding derivatives to the mix. The new highly intelligent (Hi Q) fund's portfolio will be invested in 20 per cent unlisted property, 30 per ...

Phoenix won't rise from $1b fraud

... the fraud was uncovered. In March 2005, the German regulator BaFin shut down the operations of the Frankfurt-based derivatives trader on suspicion that they were running a version of a pyramid scheme with profits and new money circling between the old ...

Beware of hedge risk: Deloitte

... 244 funds between US$25 million to US$10 billion, around 50 per cent of survey participants hold futures, swaps and derivatives without measuring off-balance sheet leverage. "Although it does not mean that the industry is headed for the equivalent of ...

JPMorgan banks on alternative energy returns

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... structured product market and leverages off our global expertise," said David Jones-Prichard, vice president, equity derivatives and structured products with JPMorgan. "The securities offer a 100 per cent principal protection facility when held to maturity ...

State Street ploughs $715m into online FX

... will merge the company's technology with their multi-asset class trading platform Global Link. Ross Bauer, manager of derivatives group Many Financial's local margin Foreign Exchange desk, said that the foreign exchange sector has grown from strength ...

Goldman Sachs wins Asia's bank of the year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... dinner in Hong Kong on 5 February. Other winners with an Australian presence include Deutsche as best overall bond and derivatives house, Westpac as best Australia and New Zealand bond house, HSBC as best domestic bond house, and Macquarie for best Australia ...

Patersons' poor compliance under review

... the client's investments at the adviser's discretion. However, ASIC said Hawley and McAlister may have entered into derivatives trading for their clients in which the clients were ill informed about the risks or the decision did not suit their financial ...

Record numbers achieve CFA charter

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... undertake a challenging program of study, covering topics such as ethical and professional standards, equity, debt and derivatives analysis, alternative investments, financial statement analysis, quantitative methods, economics, corporate finance, portfolio ...

CFDs close in on share trading

Contracts for difference (CFDs), a derivatives product which came out of nowhere five years ago, are now the second most popular trading instrument in the country with the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) gearing up to launch their version next year. ...

QSuper ploughs $2b into derivatives and swaps

Super fund QSuper has taken the extraordinary step of investing around $2 billion in derivative and swap contracts that mimic the performance of inflation-linked bonds as an alternative to buying the real thing. As the name suggests, inflation-linked ...