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Perpetual proposes caps on exec and board pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... said. The group said majority of its managed funds maintained "top quartile" performance in a period billed as the Great Recession. "Since the onset of the downturn, we have outperformed benchmarks across nearly all of our main managed funds," said S ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... Their ratings constitute only a 'point in time' analysis! Deficits are necessary to stabilize economies during times of recession. Large deficits are necessary during deep recessions. Unless spent on unproductive pursuits, these deficits will be recovered ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... KONG - Hong Kong shares fell 1.58 per cent as investors reacted to a forecast by the US Federal Reserve of a deeper recession in the world's biggest economy. The Hang Seng Index fell 276.35 points to 17,199.49. WELLINGTON - Shares in Auckland Airport ...

Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... October 2008 spike of 4.82 per cent when it first dawned on one and sundry that the world is collapsing into a global recession. Why is the Libor rate important? Libor is important because, for example in the US, more than half of the adjustable rate ...

Super concession cuts were overdue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... briefing. Previous budgets handed many benefits to high income earners and this redresses the balance especially in a global recession. "The tough economic conditions mean we are going to have to see more of that in years ahead," he said. Oliver was ...

Confusion in the inflection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Cracks on the Wall? Have markets got ahead of themselves and investors are now looking for the greater fool? Taking Wall Street's cue, most major equity markets around the world finished last week's trading activity in the red. But then again, most ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... took a beating on Wednesday as a weak report on US retail sales dampened hopes for a quick economic recovery from the recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 184.22 points, or 2.18 per cent, to settle at 8,284.89. The tech-dominated Nasdaq slumped ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... old days. And why not? Times have been good. It has been almost a generation since 'The Lucky Country' experienced a recession. I still recall back in 1990/91 when the Federal Treasury's Budget Papers were neatly stocked in our office shelves for easy ...

Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... railway to high-tech alarms, fund manager K2 Asset Management banks on stocks that will flourish in the face of a global recession. Nick Griffin, the group's head of international strategy, said that investors should tap into mega-trends that will drive ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... happened during the Great Depression. At the same time, there is little debate that what we are experiencing now is a deep recession - far from the scale of the economic slump of the 1930s, although there are those who say that the present hardship surely ...