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A QEasy road ahead for investors

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... government has run only three surpluses over the past 100 years (1956, 1999 and 2000) and 97 deficits. Hence there is a crisis here brewing." Sherwood said that it was difficult to see how the US could experience the rapid growth needed to reduce its ...

Time to lift operational reserves: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
Funds need to ramp up their operational reserves, according to new research from Mercer. "As a minimum, we recommend that all funds should have an operational risk reserve equal to either 100 per cent of the fund's annual in-house operating costs, 50 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... Circle luncheon. In Australia on Monday, the share market closed sharply stronger on renewed investor confidence after a crisis package was agreed upon in Europe. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 119.1 points, or 2.66 per cent, to 4,599.8, while ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... to curb its public deficit and debt supported sentiment, suggesting that the EU will back Greece to find a way out of a crisis threatening the eurozone's credibility. A solid lead from New York, where investors welcomed a recent spurt of takeover activity ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... institutions "to start drawing up so-called living wills - documents outlining how each bank could be wound up in the event of a crisis...over the six to nine months." Call me a sceptic but what would the FSB do if these institutions don't? Close them ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... Because all the while that the Fed and Uncle Sam are re-liquifying the economic and financial systems, it's starting a crisis somewhere else. I talk of course, of the US dollar. The massive amount of leverage Uncle Sam now finds itself in is driving ...

AIG Australia weathering US storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... been an achievement highlights, according to Green, the importance of detailed one-on-one communications when there is a crisis in confidence. "As global events unfolded over the last few months we significantly stepped up the briefings to clients and ...

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... ever again. New regulations have been introduced, repealed and brought back through the course of history every time a crisis of economic and/or financial nature hits. Each time, players found a way around the system. I concluded last Friday's piece ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... the maths 4.8 per cent unemployment means 95.2 per cent of the workforce are employed. Company profits? There is no way a crisis of this magnitude would not impact on company profits. But while some companies' bottomlines are under duress, others like ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... price for this home mortgage crisis. And all of us will pay an even steeper price if we allow this crisis to deepen - a crisis which is unraveling homeownership, the middle class, and the American Dream itself. But if we act boldly and swiftly to arrest ...