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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Businesswoman in Ponzi scheme gets 120 years in jail, RM5mil fine

KUALA LUMPUR: A businesswoman was sentenced to a total of 120 years in jail and fined RM5mil for swindling 4,000 people in an illegal investment scheme.

Raja Noor Asma Raja Harun, 49, pleaded guilty Monday to offences related to the Anti-Money Laundering Act and the Securities Commission, after 18 witnesses testified from Aug 5 last year.

She was alleged to have fleeced 4,000 investors and earned herself millions during the year she was running her wealth management business, without having either a fund manager's licence or a futures broker's licence.

Raja Noor Asma had pleaded guilty to receiving, using or having in possession of illegal proceeds obtained through a Ponzi scheme at various banks between 2007 and 2008.

(A Ponzi scheme is said to be a swindle in which quick returns on an initial investment, mostly with money from new investors, lures the victim into bigger risks.)

A Sessions Court here sentenced her to a total of 100 years in prison – two years' imprisonment for each of 50 counts of money laundering – under the Anti-Money Laundering Act.

She will, however, serve only two years after judge S.M. Komathy Suppiah ordered her jail terms to run concurrently.

Raja Noor Asma, a director of FX Capital Consultant (M) Sdn Bhd and FX Consultant, was also fined RM5mil and jailed a total of 20 years for various charges related to the Securities Commission.

She will, however, serve just five years for these offences, as Komathy also ordered the sentences related to the commission to run concurrently.

In all Raja Noor Asma will spend seven years in prison for her offences, committed from 2007 to 2008.

"Deterrence and denunciation are the two primary considerations taken into account in crafting an appropriate sentence in this case.

"The offences committed by the accused are serious and public confidence in the court would be corroded if offenders who deceive the public are given lenient sentence," said Komathy.

Raja Noor Asma admitted to committing the offences at the company's premises in Rawang between February 2007 and May 2008.

The court has set April 1 to hear claims by investors over their investments in the scheme in an attempt to recover their money.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

儲蓄1300噸‧市值千億 黃金交易基金富可敵國

(上海20日訊)全球僅有6個國家黃金儲備超過1000噸,但全球最大黃金交易所交易基金SPDR Gold Trust,目前則坐擁黃金約1300噸,價值超過560億美元(約1763億令吉)。

1300噸黃金究竟是多少?據官方數據,中國現在的黃金儲備是1054噸,美國是8133噸,全世界只有6個國家的黃金儲備超過1000噸,說SPDR Gold Trust富可敵國一點也不誇張。

黃金交易所交易基金也稱“黃金ETF”,是一種以實物黃金為基礎資產,追蹤現貨黃金價格波動的金融工具,可以在證券市場交易,SPDR Gold Trust基金2004年在紐約證券交易所上市后,黃金ETF引起關注。

黃金ETF發展迅猛,是因為有5個投資優勢:首先是交易便捷,投資者可像買賣股票一樣買賣黃金交易所的ETF;其次是保管安全,投資者購買基金份額就等於持有了黃金現貨。

成投資對象

第三是交易成本低,投資者購買黃金交易所交易基金可免去黃金的保管費、儲藏費和保險費等費用;第四是流動性強,黃金交易所交易基金有市場代理或做市商活躍市場交易,容易變現。

最后是交易透明,全球黃金交易24小時連續,而且價格十分透明。

中國首只黃金基金,即諾安黃金基金目前正火熱發售,主要投資對象就是黃金交易所ETF;而SPDR Gold Trust也有可能成為諾安黃金基金的投資對象。

由于看好國際金價后期走勢,國際知名投資大師紛紛重倉持有SPDR Gold Trust。

截至三季度末,量子基金掌門人索羅斯持有469.7萬份SPDR Gold Trust,是索羅斯基金的第一大重倉資產,佔其投資組合的8.98%。

金價明年續走高
資誠調查:1400至3000美元

資誠會計師事務所(PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)公佈最新項調查結果顯示,金礦企業預計目前黃金熱潮將延續,因為金融市場仍擔憂全球經濟狀況,預計2011年黃金價格將續走高。

資誠對44家金礦企業的管理人士進行調查后發現,所有企業中有近75%受訪對象預計金價將繼續走高至2011年第四季。

同時,有約82%受訪對象認為他們早前預測的黃金產量將進一步上升。

資誠說,接受調查的金礦企業預計,金價將介于每安士1400至3000美元(約4405至9440令吉)之間的最高水平,其中40%則認為金價將在每安士1500美元(約4720令吉)附近的高水平。資誠是在2010年11月份進行該項調查。

調查顯示,70%黃金生產企業計劃利用其額外現金流尋找新項目,或會對現有項目進行擴充,以此對黃金儲備進行更替或補充。

Monday, December 20, 2010

游枝:朝日隨筆 哪些國家的錢值得炒

講錢的世界(9)

住香港的幾年,有過炒外幣的經驗。

炒外幣,香港人稱炒錢,是一種憑錢生更多錢的賺錢手段。

香港人,為錢,什么都炒。

買賣房屋地產叫炒樓,向股市求財叫炒股,從金市場賺錢是炒金,借了各國貨幣幣值上落的變動,買賣外國錢,有利可取,甚至是一般家庭主婦的一份收入。

我曾經跟隨鄰居買菜婆上銀行去旁觀過香港人炒外幣的風景。

這時候,錢的價值,有大流動的變化。

一、是向東流。非常大量的金錢,流向中國和印度。同樣的,中國印度的大量金錢,又流向跟中印有較密切來往的地區。如此金錢的流動,工商業興旺,錢賺錢,“資”潤了錢所流過的地區。

二、錢更值錢。

中國、印度的生意大了,錢的價值怎么壓也免不了上漲。近年來,中國人民幣面對一步步升值的國際要求,中國政府雖然盡力避開升值的壓力。

不過,只能迴避大幅度升值,人民幣幣值越來越高,這個走勢無法阻止。

印度貨幣盧比,情況沒人民幣那么吃緊,由于印度經濟發展有成,盧比的價值就跟著上漲。

過去,日本的經濟擠入世界前幾名,日元升值近200%。我有朋友醒目,日元升值前,先買下大量日元,到日元最高值時刻再賣掉,算算是用一塊錢賺多了一塊多,正是炒錢得利的例子。

中國不會像日本那么順國際要求大幅度提升幣值,但是,人民幣仍然會上升,當然也成炒的好選擇。

不止是中國印度的錢越來越值錢,資源國家,如印度巴西、澳洲、加拿大、南非這多個資源豐富的國家,貨幣價值必然節節升高。巴西的貨幣里爾、南非蘭特、印度盧比、澳元、加元,都成為熱炒對象。