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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 New regulations have been introduced, repealed and brought back through the course of history every time a crisis of economic and/or financial nature hits.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 ...

Market bottom approaches, recovery expected soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... five years. In addition, there are smaller corrections where prices fall by 7-15 per cent every nine months. However, a crisis on the stock markets has often been accompanied by one in the financial sector, as illustrated by the Savings & Loans crisis ...