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Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider trading, the tomorrow I referred to was a metaphorical tomorrow not the "tomorrow" tomorrow. Wall Street rallied big time overnight ...

Homegrown techs gain top billing

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
... Group for the Americas, which created market surveillance technology that automatically identify patterns such as insider trading and market manipulation. Phil Davies, chief technology officer of the Milestone Group, suppliers of investment technology ...

ASIC slaps tough penance for fin services misconduct

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
In a landmark case, a young broker charged with multiple counts of insider trading has received a four-and-a-half year jail sentence, the highest sentence on record for that offence in Australia. On December 2 John Joseph Hartman, 25, of Mosman, New ...

US insider trading probe rocks hedge fund community

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... could affect firms with significant presences in Australia. Over the past 48 hours, as part of a wide-ranging insider trading probe, the FBI has raided a number of hedge funds across the country. The first wave of investigations centered around low profile ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... per cent in 2012 (from 7.1-7.5 per cent predicted in June). Then there's the on-going FBI probe of hedge fund insider trading and worse-than-expected existing home sales report for October. At least China's still growing. Ahhh, but Mr. Market fears that ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... Investors, Diamondback Capital Management and Loch Capital Management to gather evidence that they engaged in insider trading. The word on the street now is who's next? My oh my, I don't know why the financial press attributed this as a market negative? ...

Fundies caught in $5m heist

SFC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... Tiger Asia Management from dealing shares in the country ever again after it caught the fund's directors guilty of insider trading - twice. Last August, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) applied for an injunction order to freeze up to $4 million ...

Orion tightens compliance after rogue trader caught

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... standards since one of its equities dealers, 24-year-old John Hartman, was caught and pleaded guilty to 25 charges of insider trading. Hartman was employed by Orion from March 2006 to January last year before he was dismissed for insider trading and ...

ASIC power boost could trigger witch-hunts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... lifting the standards of ethical conduct is a big step towards restoring market confidence and prevent further insider trading cases. John Prossor, director and compliance manager at Synchron, said it was time "ASIC were given [investigative] teeth" ...

Galleon sinks $4bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... with $4 billion in assets shuts down after US watchdog SEC investigates the group's founder, Raj Rajaratnam, for insider trading. In a scandal that rocked New York's Manhattan set, Rajaratnam became the latest high profile hedge fund manager criminally ...