Changes Afoot At Macquarie
Macquarie Group has appointed Sydney-based Ben Brazil as co-head of its Corporate and Asset Finance Group, or CAF, the company's lending and leasing businesses. The group also announced the appointment of Alex Harvey as chief executive officer of Macquarie Asia.
Australia’s Richest Woman Lifts Fairfax Stake To 12%
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s raid on Fairfax Mediahas gained her almost 12% of Australia’s oldest newspaper publisher, with 152.0 million Australian dollars (US$161.6 million) of shares changing hands early Wednesday.
Satyajit Das: Top Secret – The Chinese Envoy’s Briefing Paper On The Australian Economic Outlook (Part II)
By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2006 and 2010)
Your Excellency, I am pleased to present the requested report on the economic outlook for the...Satyajit Das: Top Secret – The Chinese Envoy’s Briefing Paper On Australia’s Economy (Part I)
By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2006 and 2010)
Your Excellency, I am pleased to present the requested report on the economic outlook for the...US MMFs versus the Eurozone, Part 2
In the first installment of US money market funds versus the eurozone, the funds were seen fleeing the continent as quickly as possible, leaving all sorts of funding chaos in their wake....
Flight of the kangaroo
Back in December, we wrote about an interesting little ripple effect in the Australian bond market from the fragility of AAA ratings in the eurozone. Top-quality euro ‘supranationals’...
The great Australian bond run
We noted a while back that Australia was facing a serious problem in its bond markets. In short, the country seems to be running out of public government debt.There isn’t...
Trade Executed
We executed a (mostly) across the board trade for large accounts on Thursday buying ASX Limited (ASXFF) which is the stock exchange in Australia. The trade obviously increases our exposure to financial stocks and takes us back to Australia after having...
Archer Capital Lands A$1.5B Bulls Eye
Investors are lining up to park their money in Australian private equity.
Australian banks’ll be right, mate
There was a bit of a furore in Australia this month when the big banks looked like — shock, horror — they would not immediately pass on an official interest rate cut...
Endangered supranational kangaroos
Here’s an interesting ripple effect to consider… downgrades of AAA-rated European supranational debt, hitting the Australian bond market.As Nomura rates analyst Martin...
