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AIG not impacted by bail-out failure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
This morning's bail-out failure does not impact AIG, whose funding has already been approved and put in place. Congress this morning rejected the bail-out legislation 228 votes to 205 after two-thirds of Republican legislators dismissed the bill's pre-conditions ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
You call last week a sell-off, this is a sell-off. Wall Street is now more than US$1,000,000,000,000 (US$1 trillion) cheaper as investors dumped stocks following news of the US House of Representatives' rejection of the US$700 billion financial sector ...

Bail-out might breach US constitution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
Rising concerns that the $1 trillion investment bank bail-out breaches the US constitution are making it difficult for Congress to quickly approach the bill. At Senate Banking Committee hearings on Capitol Hill, Senator Christopher J Dodd, a Democrat ...

Grow returns with timber

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Swiss private bank Pictet is launching an investment fund that not only exposes investors to potential long term returns from the timber industry but could also aid efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. The firm's PF(LUX) - Timber Fund invests ...

Consumer outlook slows climate cause

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
Financial planners may find it hard convincing clients about the benefit of socially responsible investments after a new consumer sentiment report found Australians want to take action on climate change as long as it doesn't cost them anything. The ...

Comm Bank expands FP Vic office

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
The Commonwealth Bank appointed Christian Strahlhofer and Komal Soni as relationship manager and account manager for corporate financial services, respectively in its financial planning division. Prior to this role, Strahlhofer worked in corporate banking ...

Econocrats pour cold water on mortgage agency

The Australian government's two key economic agencies yesterday reiterated their view that the market for mortgage-backed securities would recover, and that there was no case for any form of government-sponsored mortgage funding agency. In his opening ...

SEC blocks bank short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
US based Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking extreme action against wild 'naked' short selling, issuing an emergency order that prevents the practice across a number of commercial and investment bank stocks. The order means anyone taking ...

FT snags $200m fixed income mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Franklin Templeton Investments has been awarded a $200 million Global Aggregate fixed income mandate by Advance Asset Management Limited (Advance) - St. George Group's specialist investment management arm. The mandate will be managed by John Beck, co-director ...

ING Aus appoints two senior Life Risk execs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
ING Australia has appointed a new head of product and marketing and head of strategy in Life Risk. Gerard Kerr, formerly head of claims at Asteron will be joining the group as head of product and marketing. He was most recently the chair of IFSA's working ...