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Deloitte expands Islamic finance business

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
Deloitte is pushing further into Islamic finance with the appointment of a global leader to manage the Shariah compliant division's operations. Daud Vicary Abdullah was appointed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu global leader of the Islamic Finance Industry ...

Mercer urges STP implementation

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Mercer has called for UK defined contribution pension plan trustees to adopt straight through processing (STP) systems or risk significant financial pain. STP involves the automation of communication about investment transactions between administrators ...

Centric Wealth signs on XPLAN

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
Centric Wealth Advisers has entered into an agreement with IRESS to deploy the tech firm's web-based adviser desktop, XPLAN. "Following a strategic review of systems, extensive input from our adviser team, and a formal market analysis, IRESS was chosen ...

Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Forty years ago today, what was thought beyond the realms of human possibility became reality. Man landed on the moon. No one also imagined Professor Nouriel Roubini turning into a bull. For as long as I care to remember Professor Nouriel Roubini was ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... years, there were months when this statistic fell by much more than what we got in March this year. Like retail sales, US business inventories fell by a bigger-than-expected 1.3 per cent in February. Expectations were for a 1.2 per cent fall. Moreover ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Two million jobs and counting. This is the number of Americans that will bring increased profits to Campbell Soup come Christmas time. And because these ordinary taxpayers' have to give part of their now non-existent income and drastically reduced wealth ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
It's official. The US is - or has been - in recession since December 2007. Now what? The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that America's economy entered recession one year ago, despite not ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - the official arbiter of the US business cycle - 'does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP. Rather, a recession is ...

WealthBuilder targets generational clients

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
IOOF has created WealthBuilder - a multigenerational investment bond targeted towards investors focussed on estate planning and medium to long term savings. According to Renato Mota, general manager investor solutions at IOOF, estate planning provides ...

UBS restructures core business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
Global investment bank UBS is separating its business into three separate divisions in a bid to make the bank more effective post sub-prime. The group will now operate as three autonomous business entities. The firm said the new structure would provide ...