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Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... lending as well. Consumers and corporations are already reducing their demand for loans - debt deflation. There really is no easy way out at this point in time. The looming global recession must run its course in order to purge the system of its past ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... 2000s. US authorities responded to the savings and loan crisis, Long Term Capital Management, the dotcom bubble with very easy monetary policy and/or fiscal largesse. This prevented the complete unwinding of excess debt in the system. Now they are trying ...

BGI adds two more ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... limited selection of managed funds that provide access to the BRIC economies, but the iShares MSCI BRIC provides a cheap and easy way to attain exposure. All the iShares ETFs can be leveraged just like a listed share which can be accessed with a single ...

Credit investors put bond issuers on notice

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... disclosure. "We don't have that standing at the moment. My sense is that it is improving but it is early days. There is no more easy money for credit issuers so they need to work harder." Senior manager credit at Portfolio Partners, Robert Camilleri ...

US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... lunches in investing," said Greenwich Associates consultant Dev Clifford. "When markets were historically strong it became easy for parties on both sides to accept the status quo - and the incremental investment returns. Now that the bubble has burst ...

RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... by 3.2 percent to US$121.10, after hitting an intra-day low of US$119.51 a barrel. Major world central banks will have an easy task on their hands if this trend towards lower commodity prices continues as they could then focus on providing the dynamics ...

Life insurance made easy: AIG

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
Wanted - 2,200 advisers looking to boost clients' life cover with only a signed declaration of good health as the solo underwriting requirement. AIG Life last week unveilled a six-week promotional campaign targeting 2,200 financial advisers to increase ...

Former Invesco duo harvest good returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... enjoy doing is managing money, not managing people or a broader business," said Walsh. "With funds management, it's very easy to be distracted about business related issues. The real aim of this business is to keep it at a reasonable size, reduce complexity ...

Industry backs ASIC 'super snapshot'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... many issues including fees, costs, future contributions and earnings. "The end result of this project must be a simple and easy way of estimating final retirement savings where consumers understand that its is not a guarantee of what they will actually ...

Bennelong's new arm champions boutiques

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... the new business now." Watkins also pointed out that if investors looked closely at a range of diverse markets, it would be easy to spot many successful small managers holding their own against larger players. "You tend to see that as they mature, there ...