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Generations split on what causes sleepless nights

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... generations, said Sunsuper's general manager, customer experience Teifi Whatley is a shared lack of confidence in financial markets and the global economy post-GFC. Regardless of age, she said all generations agreed that a lack of savings in the bank ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... Let's not forget you work for a company that invest in bonds. Let's also not forget that the only certainty in financial markets is uncertainty. "Unusually uncertain times" my butt. Oh sowee, I sorta remember a case when Pimco was so certain about the ...

Tyndall seeks opportunity in loan market restructure

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... the whole pace of the deleveraging trade." Martin said the effect is almost going back to the way the world financial markets operated 25 to 30 years ago where pools of non-bank capital existed in the form of merchant banks. "In the institutional space ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
Financial markets have again become Eurocentric - bobbing up and down on every blah that comes out of anybody who's somebody's lips. I don't think anybody could argue that Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is somebody. Thus, when he blahed to Germany's ...

Alternatives need new thinking: QIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... diversifier within alternatives used by QIC is insurance linked bonds, which are fundamentally unrelated to financial markets. "The earning streams are very short dated so you could calculate an NPV on them, but because they're three month to one year ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... expansion/contraction line. Perhaps Uncle Ben's also waiting for tomorrow's non-farm payrolls report before shouting "action!" Financial markets expected a plus 100K print in employment. But the actuals would need to beat expectations by 100% -- most ...

No Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... president, Mario Draghi, told the world that the central bank is prepared to do whatever it takes to save the euro. Financial markets are renowned for having short-term memories... but not that short. "... believe me, it will be enough," Mario stressed. ...

ASIC raises bar on OTC derivatives

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... "Ultimately, this goes to our strategic priority of promoting the confident participation of retail investors in financial markets," Tanzer said. Under the changes, retail OTC derivatives issuers will be required to hold NTA greater than $500,000 or ...

Keynes & Riccardo on display

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
Financial markets sit and wait while the CBs meet. No one wants to be whipsawed either way. Not even the headlines... if anybody noticed. There is not the usual sensationalism that goes with each daily move in the markets - dragging out all the negative ...

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro... believe me, it will be enough." Financial markets did. They believed him. The DJ Euro Stoxx 50 surged by 4.3% while we were sleeping, led by a 6.1% spike in Spanish stocks ...