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Yen caught in crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Now it's the Japanese yen's turn. The current financial crisis that started in the US sub-prime sector and had been strangling the stock and money markets is now morphing into an exchange rate problem. Increased risk aversion and the unwinding of yen ...

Deutsche extends MENA services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
Deutsche Bank continues to broaden its Middle East and North African (MENA) equities capability, adding trading, sales trading and equity capital markets services to its platform and hiring two senior executives. Former UBS executives, Ahmed Beydoun ...

CSAM opens commodity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
Credit Suisse Asset Management is to offer its enhanced commodity fund to the retail and institutional market as a way for investors to gain returns that are uncorrelated to equity markets. The Credit Suisse Enhanced Commodity Fund was launched roughly ...

CHOICE warns of online fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
Consumer watchdog CHOICE has outlined a list of online identity fraud techniques to protect consumers against the growing threat. CHOICE estimates identity fraud costs Australians roughly $1 billion affecting 500,000 people every year. Most are hit ...

AMP wins $42m SRI mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
The $450 million industry fund Christian Super has appointed AMP with a $42 million Australian Equities mandate. According to Tim Macready, chief investment officer of Christian Super, the mandate was awarded in July and marks AMP's debut win from the ...

Euro SRI market hits $4 trillion

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
A Eurosif report on asset managers and self managed asset owners found the sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) market across 13 European countries represents more than $4 trillion. Eurosif, the European equivalent of the Responsible Investment ...

Blame planners, not me: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Just when you thought the financial crisis couldn't get any crazier, former Treasurer Peter Costello said planners are to blame for super fund members losing money from their super fund accounts following the stockmarket rout. "The government didn't ...

Zurich fund awarded S&P 'five stars'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Zurich Investments Equity Income Fund attained the highest Standard & Poor's rating of 'five stars'. The fund was previously rated 'four stars'. Christian Baylis, Standard & Poor's analyst, said the rating reflected the firm's belief that the investment ...

CHOICE selects top FHSAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
AMP Bank, NSW Teachers Credit Union (NTCU) and Victorian Teachers Credit Union (VTCU) are the three institutions that received the thumbs up in a new report on First Home Savers Accounts (FHSAs) by consumer body CHOICE. FHSAs are deposit savings accounts ...

Govt breathes new life into RMBS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
The Rudd Government's move to set up a government-sponsored mortgage body and invest in $4 billion of Australian residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) should reinvigorate the ailing RMBS market and re-instate it as an attractive asset class ...