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Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Media coverage of Australia's employment statistics had been unanimously negative. But is it? The ink has barely dried on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report for December 2008 when headlines flashed one after another about ...

Innovators, imitators and idiots

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Yale Endowment wannabes trying to emulate their heroes with high exposures to timber products pushed up prices to 30 times pre-tax cash flow, setting them up for big falls in 2009. The frenzy, reported by Barron's, a newsletter published by the Wall ...

Credit Suisse appoints private banking head

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
Credit Suisse has appointed Ray McGregor as managing director and head of private banking Australia. McGregor will be based in Sydney reporting functionally to Francois Monnet, head of private banking Southeast Asia and Australasia, and locally to country ...

For those about to hit rock bottom, we salute you

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
The real culprit behind the global credit crunch has been formally identified as not Dr Alan Greenspan but rock band AC/DC, after the UK Guardian newspaper revealed the world goes into recession every time the aging rockers go on tour. Sending world ...

Super funds are not 'blameless'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
Super funds should take a closer look at their own role in the current capital market crisis and reassess their governance standards instead of blaming other firms, according to Donald MacDonald, BT Pension Fund trustee and UK PRI chair. Speaking at ...

Three steadies and a cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (1 - 5 Sep 2008) Four of the world's major central banks will hold monetary policy meetings this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), The Bank of Canada (BoC), the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

Lower, higher, steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
The latest reading from the Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index points to a slowdown in the Australian economy in the coming months, confirming the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) comments in the minutes of its 5 August Board meeting. The annual ...

ML appoints SWF head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
Leading wealth management and capital markets firm, Merrill Lynch, has appointed Fares Noujaim to global head of sovereign wealth funds (SWF), as the sector's importance continues to swell. Noujaim was also appointed president of the firm's business ...

Goods and services trade deficit narrows to $2.7b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
Australia's favourable terms of trade metrics is finally counting for something as the balance on goods and services numbers improved by $525 million in March. According to the ABS, in seasonally adjusted terms the deficit on the balance improved by ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
April 1st came early this year with the Reserve Bank, the Productivity Commission and the National Trust of NSW making some of their most incredible public statements ever. High interest rates and bank rates jumping above the Reserve's official benchmark ...