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Managers seek ESG framework

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... at the desktop." However, these issues should not deter managers from doing all they can to integrate these issues, said Fred Buenrostro Jnr, CalPERS retiring chief executive. He described how it took almost two or three years to work with asset consultants ...

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 ...

Dec 2007 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The world's major central banks have launched a joint effort to address the on-going liquidity crisis and stabilise financial markets. This failed in December 2007 when the economic and financial backdrop were much better, will it succeed this time? ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
The bloodbath continues. The Federal Reserve's US$85 billion bailout of American Insurance Group (AIG) proved insufficient to calm the financial market panic that appears to be increasing by the day. The overnight sell-off saw more than three years' ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Volatile trading continued on Wall Street overnight as investors continued to digest the implications of the Lehman Brothers' collapse on the financial system. Equities were whipsawed, first sliding on the US Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
'This is a once in a half century, probably once in a century type of event.' (Alan Greenspan). Are we headed for a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s? This might sound too alarmist but indeed, quite a possibility as one giant US financial ...

Whac-a-mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (15 - 19 Sep 2008) The market jubilation that followed the US Treasury's rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac early last week quickly faded as problems in Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and American International Group ...

One step forward, two steps back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
So what is it going to be? The US equity market does not seem to know which way it is headed. One day it rallies sharply as investors convinced themselves that the worst of the crisis in the US financial sector maybe nearing the end, the next day it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market may trade weaker today after Wall Street dropped by around two and a half per cent overnight. Oil fell commensurately, and gold, silver and copper too were lower. At 0738 AEST, the Sydney Futures Exchange's September Share ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
A number of public sector and industry super funds, multi managers and master trusts have pumped a combined $370 million into a specialist Apostle fund that aims to capitalise on the undervalued US senior bank loans market. The Apostle Loomis Sayles ...