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Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... to buy two Australias or 17 New Zealands plus change!" Well as it's turning out, the QE2 might be enough to buy just one Turkey - the country not the one carved up for Thanksgiving - after all. If it came form any other source, I would quickly dismiss ...

Credit Suisse appoints Aussie for asset management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... including global head of emerging markets fixed income distribution and managed the businesses in the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and Latin America. Before taking a role at Credit Suisse in 1993 he worked at Macquarie Bank in Australia. As managing director ...

Desert Storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille. With four hungry children and crops in the field. I've had some bad times, lived through some sad times, But this time the hurting won't heal. You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille." --Kenny Rogers ...

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Hold that turkey! Put that cork back into the champagne bottle! Thanksgiving has been hijacked! If you don't standstill, we sink. Dubai World reportedly intends to ask its creditors to "standstill" and extend maturities of its about US$59 billion debt ...

Small thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
Thanks again. Well ok, just a small thank you perhaps. I don't know about you Virginia, but usually during days like these when the planets align - good economic data releases - Wall Street ramps it up, not the paltry less than half a per cent hop it ...

Thank you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... dinner tables. Thank you that inflation is coming down, they could have been having baked beans or can soup instead of turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. Australians too have plenty to be thankful. Thank you that the Reserve Bank of Australia has acted ...

ING buys into Turkish pension market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Global Dutch financial institution ING Group purchased Turkey's first and only voluntary pension fund, Oyak Emeklilik for $180 million to tap into the country's pension market. Previously owned by OYAK Group and established in 2003, Oyak Emeklilik has ...

Equity markets back in style

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... volatility in the markets, noted S&P's. Meanwhile, investor confidence also soared in the emerging markets of China, India and Turkey. Double digit gains were posted for the former at +15.10 per cent after declining 12.36 per cent in March. India also ...

Currency replaces fixed income

... Davey continued, "But what you see is that as you go through the period 2001 to 2003, you have currencies such as Russia, Turkey and others that suddenly became free floating and their liquidity increases. The interesting thing for us is that if you ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey. "Muslim investors around the world have growing appetite for investable sector and thematic solutions that have been screened ...