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Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
ariant Perceptions' variant perception QE is dead, long live QE! It's the eve of that much-awaited, much-speculated Big Ben QE speak but last night's bigger-than-what-we've-seen-over-past-few-day's fall suggests that participants may have given up on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... start on Friday as world markets dropped due to caution ahead of a highly anticipated speech by the head of the US central bank. Expectations that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would announce new economic stimulus on Friday have weakened as the ...

Principal Global gets $150m QFII quota

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... located in Hong Kong, Singapore and the US. Principal Global Investors established a joint venture with China Construction Bank in 2005 with the joint venture, China Construction Bank-Principal Asset Management (CCB-PAM), managing both equity and fixed ...

Ruling returns $62 million to MF Global customers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
Failed global derivative network MF Global's Australian customers yesterday learned they would be entitled to the distribution of $62 million of funds pursued by creditors. A ruling in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday established that the $62.7 million ...

ASX appoints non-exec director

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... non-executive director of the company. Ridout is currently a director of AustralianSuper and a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. She will stand for election as a director at ASX's 2012 Annual General Meeting on 5 October 2012. "Heather ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... little ben stumped. For I don't see any point in guessing what's inside the head of the head of the most powerful central bank in the world. Financial market activity over these past few days tells me I'm not alone. There's little movement -- everywhere. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... economies, a key input into policy decisions, was slightly less buoyant than the previous report, suggesting the central bank sees growth as having slowed slightly since July. LONDON - European equities mostly lost ground as investors took profits amid ...

Dangers of hybrid securities unrecognised: Adviser

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... the risk they represent and the market is yet to fully recongise the associated dangers. Worse case scenario with holding bank or non-bank hybrids, he added, is that investors get treated like shareholders, which means they have very few rights. "I expect ...

AMP North nudges $3 billion in AUM

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... big feature for the platform," he said. In the last half year more than $58 million in term deposits were acquired by AMP Bank through the platform. "We have also been focusing on rolling out the platform to the AMP and Hillross networks, and that has ...

AustralianSuper hires veteran economist Tierney

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... economies incorporating economic and policy factors. Previously, he worked as a Money Market Trader with the Commonwealth Bank and Hong Kong Bank Australia and as a currency strategist, and international economist with Bankers Trust Australia. Tierney ...