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Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
No more Libor pains. The trillions of dollars flooding the financial system have already bought optimism for an eventual economic recovery - now it is also buying trust. Trust among banks, that is. Yesterday, I talked about the Libor/OIS spread - a ...

DNR scores AMP mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Managed accounts specialists Dalton Nicol Reid has picked up three dealer group mandates in the last month, including one from AMP. Jamie Nicol, chief investment officer of DNR, said that there's no doubt that the managed accounts market is booming ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
'Job losses worst for 18 years' (AFR). 'Australian Jobless Rate Climbs to 4-Year High of 5.2%' (Bloomberg). Boy oh boy, here we go again. Each time Australia's job numbers are updated, we get the media's display of their masochistic tendencies. We are ...

CBA still seeding Colonial funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
Seed funding for a couple of landmark infrastructure investments by Colonial remains on the balance sheet of Commonwealth Bank, in one case more than 15 months after the bank tipped in the capital. In an investor briefing on the bank's wealth management ...

Intel eyes China tech

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
The investment arm of computing giant Intel has doubled the size of its newest China technology fund in a bid to cash in on the country's booming IT sector. Intel Capital said the new $535.7 million China technology fund will be invested in wireless ...

Agriculture drives biofuel investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
As agriculture continues to outperform, the push for sustainable biofuels will only increase investor appetite for investment opportunities in the sector. According to the Commonwealth Bank, "Australia's listed agribusiness sector has significantly ...

Investec takes to the air

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Specialist banking group Investec has raised its stakes in the aircraft leasing business with the launch of the Investec Global Aircraft Fund - its first institutional offering to the Australian market. According to a statement released by Investec ...

Job vacancies bull run falters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Job vacancies in Australia are finally responding to changing economic conditions falling 1.3 per cent in February to 180,300, the first time they've gone backwards in 11 quarters. The fall doesn't however yet signify an end to the job vacancy bull-run ...

Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
While Australian exports are booming and industry is rolling along so well that their biggest complaint is why there is too little labour supply, our high current account deficit (CAD) means we are more vulnerable than we think, no matter how much we ...

CG not a priority for mid-caps

Listed companies in the mid-cap sector run the risk of being ignored by corporate governance-conscious institutional investors after a new report found that only two out of 150 mid-cap companies have adopted 'best practice' CG standards. The 2007 BDO ...