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Asian private equity grows rapidly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... Asia magazine. But Australia is also a market leader with two Sydney-based private equity managers in the top 10. The surprise is the absence of Indian private equity managers from the study's top 30, they noted, due to investor sentiment in the sub-continent ...

MIT Budget inconsistencies spark concern

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
The surprise doubling of withholding tax for foreign investment in managed investment trusts has been criticised as inconsistent with the IMR initiative. In a budget analysis, Russell Investments has called the move on MIT withholding tax a "significant ...

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... revenue and the $300,000 superannuation tax change is estimated to impact only 1% of taxpayers. A bigger social equity surprise, however, is that the government also scrapped the 50% tax concession on bank deposit interest of up to $1000 albeit the government ...

You beauty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
Looks like desperation did something nice to Wayne's budgeting prowess - digging deep, Australia's Federal Treasurer was able to pull something out of the hat, enabling the government to return the "budget to surplus on time and as promised". While ...

Axioma reveals downward risk trends

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... model variants were largely in agreement in most markets, and we noted that investors might be less likely to see a 'risk surprise'. "In fact, they may have been surprised by the drop in risk during the first quarter, but that is generally a pleasant ...

Potential for surprise financial crisis high

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... Monetary Fund's recent analysis, according to speakers at yesterday's Morningstar Investment Conference. The potential for a surprise financial crisis in Australia is higher than it's been for the past 20 years, according to Dan Needham, managing director ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

ASIC flags guidance on code approval

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... approved code from starting to consider how they can work to make their code consistent with FOFA." "It will not come as a surprise to hear that at this early stage our view is that obviating the need for opt-in via subscribing to a code does not mean ...

Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... between May and end-September. Incidentally, I found the same observations hold true for Australian and European equity. Surprise, surprise. They follow where Wall Street treads, do they not? But not only that, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... recession. Markit's Eurozone PMI fell to 46 in April against expectations of a 28.1 reading and 47.7 in the previous month. Surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise too for China's PMI. HSBC's flash estimate showed the index unexpectedly rose to 49.1 this ...