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QIC targets overseas instos

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Alpha fund to international investors. Launched in 2005, the fund uses absolute return strategies across fixed income global macro markets and credit derivatives. The fund posted a gross return of more than 13 per cent per annum since inception and a ...

QIC searches for fixed interest experts

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... $65 billion QIC is looking to boost its fixed interest team and is on the hunt for an analyst and global fixed interest macro strategist. QIC is looking to hire a strategist that will contribute to the research and analysis of the fund manager's global ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... sustained' policy actions are still needed. These words from US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner perhaps best sum up the macro-environment for the second quarter economy through to the remainder of 2009. Speaking before the US Senate Banking Committee ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
Only a couple of weeks ago the US triad - US Federal Reserve, Treasury and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - were stressing over how best to release the result of the stress test they issued to 19 of their banks. They found a way. Back ...

Rothfield heads ML economics

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
John Rothfield has been named head of Australia Economics for Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. A native of Australia, Rothfield will relocate from San Francisco to Sydney. For the past 15 years, Rothfield has worked in Bank of America's Global Foreign ...

Life insurers post 18 pc plus growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... account for a fraction under 15 per cent, almost 13 per cent and just over 12 per cent of the market respectively. From a macro point of view, the life insurance risk market inflows increased by 12 per cent or $800 million to $7.2 billion over a year ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the waters, a pig comes along. And if you've been following the headlines and the pig stories you'll be scared - very scared. Wall Street grew fearful as the reported infection tally of people and countries ...

Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... benefits - so it adds to the diversification argument," he said. The asset class also acts as a hedging tool to some of the macro trends expected to influence the investment landscape over the next ten years. Farrell pegs increased regulation, growing ...

Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
Allowing SG to be lowered, even just temporarily to help stimulate the economy, would be an economic disaster, warned former Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating. At the end of last year, a group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the ...

US firm launches hedge fund rep ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... Multi-Strategy Index before fees and expenses. The index holds a range of hedge fund strategies including equity long/short, global macro, market neutral, event driven and fixed income arbitrage. The ETF also invests in a number of ETFs on the market ...