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Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Regulation governing South American pension funds investing in private equity is becoming less strict, which make it more likely for limited partners in the region to become active investors in the coming years, investment research house Preqin said. ...

Wall Street up till it was down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... issue of "sequestration". It received only a passing mention among my fave news sources. Reuters: "Investors were keeping an eye on the debate in Washington over U.S. government budget cuts that will take effect starting Friday if lawmakers fail to reach ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... US dollar rebounded slightly against the yen after suffering big losses in the past few days, while traders were casting an eye to a general election in Italy at the weekend. Tokyo shed earlier losses to end up 0.68 per cent, or 76.81 points, at 11,385.94 ...

Co-operation key to avoiding pain from ASIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Financial services firms who come under fire from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) are better off working with the regulator than prepare for a legal battle, according to a law firm specialising in the area. A seemingly endless ...

Puke on the punchbowl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
So near, yet so far. Remember those back of the envelope calculations we did yesterday, Virginia? The one which showed that the S&P 500 is almost there - could reclaim the all-time peak it reached in October 2007 by this weekend or at the most by the ...

Social media anything but rocket science

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
The proper adoption of social media strategy by financial advisers will help to raise up the public perception of the sector so often portrayed badly by media. This was the call to arms within the opening address by Baz Gardner conference host and Social ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? No, not that. I'm thinking about Warren Edward Buffet - the "Oracle of Omaha" - and his words of wisdom: "Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful" We've witnessed this Buffetism play before ...

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Well, well, well...what do you know? Over the past few weeks we've been keeping an eye on that other half of the US fiscal cliff - the budget spending cuts - and the lifting, or not, of the debt ceiling. That's been sorted (well, almost) last night ...

Fed ECB BOJ, Unlimited

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013

ASIC eyes off researchers

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
Australia's corporate watchdog will conduct targeted surveillance of research report providers after it unveiled updated policy to improve the reliability of their products yesterday. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said ...