Malaysia's Prime Minister, Boasts Investment Growth; The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Kuala Lumpur

April 4, 2012 - PRLog -- As reported by Bloomberg, private investment in Malaysia exceeded the government’s target last year as companies including Carrefour SA and General Electric Co. pledged to expand in Southeast Asia’s third-biggest economy. Investment rose to 94 billion ringgit ($31 billion), surpassing the government’s 83 billion-ringgit goal by 13 percent, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced in a live televised address to the nation late yesterday ahead of elections due by early next year. The result is a sign that the nation is making progress on its economic and government transformation programs, he said.

“We have full confidence in the wisdom to choose and make the right decision,” said Najib. “They can tell the difference between real and fake diamonds. We believe that the people will chose and government with a proven track record.” Najib, who became leader when Abdullah Ahmad Badawi stepped down in 2009, spent the past three years trying to revive flagging support for the ruling National Front coalition by boosting investment and giving cash handouts to low-income families. The government is considering an election in May or June, months before the early 2013 deadline, according to four officials who spoke on condition of anonymity last month.

Malaysia’s FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index traded at an intraday record of 1,607.73 at 9:35 a.m. in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, while the ringgit rose 0.4 percent. Najib, who said in December preparations for an election had begun, told the Wall Street Journal in January that he would call a vote once he’s shown the government’s economic and political revamp efforts are working.

These efforts seem the be working as Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders, An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, published by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011) and currently being translated into Chinese and Portuguese, is bringing The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Kuala Lumpur: How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX, April 12, for the first time to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Mr. Perez has been featured on CNBC Cash Flow (with Oriel Morrison), CNBC Squawk Box (with Geoff Cutmore), BNN Business Day (with Kim Parlee), TheStreet.com (with Gregg Greenberg), Channel NewsAsia Business Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities (with Lin Xue Ling), NHK World, iMoney Hong Kong, Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico, FIXGlobal Trading, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times.

Mr. Perez has been engaged to present to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Pace University, among other institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at Harvard Business School’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, London, Singapore), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour (New York), Institutional Investor’s Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul), 2nd Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London), among other global forums.

The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Kuala Lumpur will reveal how high-frequency trading players are succeeding in the global markets and driving the development of algorithmic trading at breakneck speeds from the U.S. and Europe to India, Singapore and Brazil. The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Kuala Lumpur kicks off a series of presentations in the world’s most important financial centers: Seoul, South Korea, March 28; Doha, Qatar, April 18; Warsaw, Poland, May 11; Kiev, Ukraine, May 18; Singapore, May 26; Beijing, China, May 30; Shanghai, China, June 6; Jakarta, Indonesia, June 13; Mexico City, Mexico, July 27; Hong Kong, August 4, and Moscow, Russia, August 10.

Mr. Perez is one of the great business networkers and motivators on the business circuit; he is available worldwide for the following speaking engagements: Present and Future of High-Frequency Trading, The Real Story behind the "Flash Crash", Networking for Financial Executives, and Business Networking for Success.

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