How we learnt to stop worrying and love the boom The biggest mining boom in Australian history since the gold rush of the 1850s is about to change shape. The investment phase of the boom, which has seen A$400 billion invested in the last decade, is tapering off. The...

The mining boom: impacts and prospects examines the fears some Australians have about the potential adverse consequences of the 10-year mining boom. People worry about the damage caused by the high dollar, the impact of the boom on non-mining regions and the risk Australia will turn into a quarry economy....

BoxRED is  jointly mandated with an Australian Company and the lead manager BBY (Australia’s largest non-bank stock broker) to assist in identifying and introducing  prospects for the placement of global cornerstones in a proposed AUD100 Mil IPO and to identify and negotiate global off take. The company is focused...

  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly looking to probe Monday’s dramatic fall in the gold price after Commissioner Bart Chilton told Bloomberg that the drop in gold and silver raised “concerns”. Preliminary investigations show that volumes in both gold and silver were at their 2nd highest levels...

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) released its consultation conclusions on the regulation of electronic trading on 22 March 2013 (Consultation Conclusions). The rules outlined in the Consultation Conclusions will affect SFC-regulated asset managers that: use third party trading algorithms, such as broker-provided trading algorithms; or use...

The Hong Kong government has introduced new tax incentives to encourage more overseas fund managers to set up in the city and promote Hong Kong as an international asset management centre. To attract more private equity funds to domicile in Hong Kong, Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah said the...

OneWest Bank and Barclays take the lead on plans to raise a total of $300 million this year. Last year, Relativity had earnings of $140 million on $650 million in revenue. Relativity Media has closed a $115 million, five-year revolving line of credit that it expects to expand to...

Smart Company reports that more than 40% of Australian SMEs exporting to or importing from China plan to settle transactions in Chinese yuan (also called renminbi) over the next year, a HSBC survey published yesterday shows. Read the fill article here http://www.smartcompany.com.au/financial-services-and-insurance/054901-australian-smes-ahead-of-the-curve-moving-to-pricing-in-the-chinese-yuan-for-export-and-import.html?utm_source=SmartCompany&utm_campaign=c676d5d4a8-Wednesday_3_April_201303_04_2013&utm_medium=email

The yuan strengthened beyond 6.21 per US dollar for the first time in 19 years yesterday after the People’s Bank of China raised the currency’s reference rate and as investors reassured by a bailout deal for Cyprus returned to emerging-market assets. The central bank’s fixing of the yuan at...

Australia to continue as commercial property investment hotspot in 2013: Jones Lang LaSalle Nearly half (45%) all real estate investment into the Asia Pacific region is flowing into Australian commercial property markets. This is double the next biggest markets of Japan (19% of investment) and China (18), according to...