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Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... management firm Marvin & Palmer Associates, said he is extremely bullish on US stocks as the severe recession and looming sovereign debt crisis meant the market was changing its rules for the better. "People never change because they should be more prudent," ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... downtrend in initial unemployment claims continues, albeit slowly. There's also the same old refrain out of Europe. Sovereign bond yields jumped overnight led by none other than the PIGIS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain). The trigger? Germany's ...

Property primed for inflow pick up

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... institutions. "A trend we're seeing in the industrial space is that there's a number of large offshore institutional funds and sovereign funds chasing those assets. We haven't seen that historically and it comes down to them wanting that consistency ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... on them and tensions are still boiling in parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Last time I looked, the European sovereign debt crisis still is... in crisis. Just last night, Moody's Investors Service downgraded Portugal's credit rating to BAA1 ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
The wealth management industry should look at sovereign wealth clients as a potential frozen asset risk, an analyst from Colonial First State told Financial Standard yesterday. With civil war raging in Libya and tensions continuing to erupt across the ...

Super mergers drive new trends in asset consulting

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... the consulting market. Taking their infrastructure and property management expertise to endowment funds, hospitals and sovereign wealth funds is also creating new opportunities for Frontier, which oversees 26 per cent of the market. Last month, Frontier ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... fight tooth and nail to retain power, dragging the instability in the MENA region for longer than it should. European sovereign debt would return to crisis mode anew. It had quietly percolated in the background towards the end of 2010 and very early ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... equities have done one better despite the threat of an imminent interest rate hike compounding the still unresolved sovereign debt crisis and the growth dampening consequence of severe fiscal austerity measures. The Euro Stoxx index is up 4.4 per cent ...

Funds must invest in ESG expertise

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... factors and the importance these factors may represent in the valuations of the companies analysed," said Donohue. Global sovereign wealth, major public funds and asset managers with around $22 trillion of AUM have already committed to the UN Principles ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... which lifted hopes for strong earnings from other large Chinese lenders. However, analysts said concerns over eurozone sovereign debt, the nuclear crisis in Japan and unrest in Libya will continue to weigh on investors. WELLINGTON - Fletcher Building's ...