26/01/2010
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26/01/2010
As the global economy continues to recover new opportunities are arising and one of the most exciting areas for local investors in Australia currently is the fixed income market. Initiatives such as the Government guarantee scheme are improving both...
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25/01/2010
Thomson Reuters has launched Kondor+ Suite - a risk management system which has been specifically tailored for Islamic banking. The Kondor+ Suite for Islamic Banking is a real time trade and risk management solution, designed to provide full front-to-back...
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25/01/2010
Global index provider FTSE has launched the FTSE EDHEC-Risk Efficient Indices in conjunction with EDHEC-Risk Institute, the centre for applied asset and risk management research. The index series uses a risk-adjusted strategy to that of traditional market capitalisation-weighted indices...
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25/01/2010
Usage of OTC derivatives to manage risk and hedging is increasing according to new figures released by derivatives benchmark SuperDerivatives (SD). SD claimed the report is the first of its kind from an independent multi asset derivatives market data...
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25/01/2010
Credit Suisse has announced a strengthening of its structured retail products group, with the appointment of Philip McLean to its sales team in Australia. McLean joins from Macquarie Group, where he was in a senior sales role for equity...
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25/01/2010
Morgan Stanley has confirmed it is to create a new derivatives structuring team and make changes to its fixed-income sales and trading teams in Asia-Pacific. The US investment bank has announced the creation of a new corporate and insurance...
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25/01/2010
Fitch Ratings has said it expects the quiet domestic structured credit market in Taiwan to continue with limited origination and investment activity in the short-run. Jackie Lee, a director in Fitch's structured credit team, said: "Given the excess liquidity...
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25/01/2010
Grace Tam, vice president of investment services, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, talks to Innovative Investor about the Asian markets. Innovative Investor - What do you think about the outlook for the Asian markets at the in the first part...
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18/01/2010
The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has ordered UBS Financial Services to pay nearly $200,000 in costs and compensation following its sale of Lehman Brothers-backed notes to an individual investor. Patricia Flanagan, from South Carolina, placed $225,000 in...
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18/01/2010
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has entered into a sale agreement with Aberdeen Asset Management for the sale of certain fund management assets and contracts of RBS Asset Management Limited and RBS Asset Management Holdings and into a...
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18/01/2010
Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) has announced it is to extend its derivatives trading hours for contracts with T+1 sessions to accommodate growing international demand for Asian equity derivatives. The extension from 11 January 2010 will allow traders to trade...
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18/01/2010
The assets held in US and European exchange-traded products (ETPs) surpassed the trillion dollar mark last year, according to research from Deutsche Bank and Blackrock. Deutsche expects the ETP market to rise again this year, to hit US$1.2 trillion,...
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18/01/2010
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and Karl Thomson Investment Consultants (Karl Thomson) have reached an agreement to resolve issues arising from the sale of Lehman Brothers Minibonds (Minibonds) by Karl Thomson. Although Karl Thomson was not a distributor...
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18/01/2010
Fitch Ratings has claimed the majority of the collateral performance backing non-Japan Asia structured finance (SF) transactions is expected to be stable in 2010, as non-Japan Asian economies have continued to recover and outperformed most of the major advanced...
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18/01/2010
Anurag Mahesh, head of global investments services in the Asia Pacific, at Deutsche Bank talks tactics with Innovative Investor and the importance of intelligent asset allocation and multi asset class structures. Innovative Investor - What strategies will you be...
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11/01/2010
Société Générale is planning to list 11 Synthetic Zero products on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) next week with a total deal size of £55m, making a significant addition to its existing listings. The products, which are types of...
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11/01/2010
The Markit iTraxx SovX CEEMEA (Central and East European, Middle East and Africa) index will start trading on January 20. The index is part of the Markit iTraxx SovX family of sovereign credit default swap indexes. The index will...
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11/01/2010
The Joint Association Committee (JAC) - a representative of the European Securitisation Forum, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Association for Financial Markets in Europe and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association - has published its response to the European...
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11/01/2010
Richard Harman has joined the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as head of retail structuring, Asia-Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Harman will report to Shane Edwards and David Moroney, global co-heads of retail structuring, and will be responsible for...
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11/01/2010
Deutsche Bank (DB) has launched six new Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (SGX), including Asia's first ETF tracking the performance of the Brazilian domestic equity market. Together with the six new ETFs, db...
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11/01/2010
The Asian market for ETFs is lagging behind the US and Europe in terms of size but it is rapidly growing, and the GFC has been instrumental in pushing people out of more traditional structures and into ETFs. However,...
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