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Your task is to write the answers to each of the following questions.
Answers should exceed 50 words but no more than 200 words for each questions:
1. Explain the key roles played by each of the following market participants, intermediaries and issuers:
a. ASX
b. Custodians
c. Managed fund providers
d. Retail and wholesale clients
e. Superannuation fund providers
f. Financial service providers and financial companies
g. Banks
h. Brokers
i. Building societies
j. Friendly societies
2. Explain the following key features of the economic environment:
a. The broad characteristics, and the impacts of, economic and business cycles
b. Government monetary and fiscal policies
c. Interest rates
d. Exchange rates
e. Inflation
f. The trends and the market development which affect the information being analysed
3. Identify and discuss the key interrelationships between the industry sectors and financial markets
4. Compare and contrast:
a. Sources of market and comparative data
b. Statistical reporting formats
c. Data collection and management systems
5. What are the key parameters to apply when evaluating information?
6. Describe the key features of:
a. The legislation relevant to financial markets information, including those for privacy and freedom of information
b. Ethical constraints
c. The relevant codes of practice
d. The organisational policy, guidelines, goals and objectives
e. Techniques for risk identification and mitigation