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Macfarlane calls for a new regulatory regime

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... working again, the longer-term goal was a better regulatory structure. He said Basel II was a regulatory system designed to stop banks going broke but did nothing to protect economies. One way for banks to protect themselves was to stop lending, which ...

If in doubt, stop securities lending: WW

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Watson Wyatt Australia is advising its clients to suspend securities lending activity if they are in any doubt of their guidelines and arrangements with their lending agent. In a note to clients, the firm asserts that the risk reward trade off around ...

Cybercriminals target fin services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
One-stop shop financial services groups should be more vigilant about how they store and manage client accounts after a new report found that online criminals are getting better at exploiting stolen financial data. Security solutions provider Symantec ...

CalPERS grows green strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
If you can't stop the financial crisis, then stop global warming and make money while doing it - much like how the US' biggest pension fund CalPERS has reduced 13.3 per cent of its energy use in 2007 and boosted its bottom line. The $278 billion California ...

No more short-selling: IML

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... investment director Anton Tagliaffero wrote an open letter to the Federal Government titled 'Please ban all short selling - full stop'. This follows the lifting of the interim ban on shorting non-financial stocks and the ongoing debate on 'naked' versus ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
... Zimbabwe. This is good news right? Yes and no. It is good news if inflation slows but remains positive. Bad news if prices stop rising and starts falling - deflation - and becomes entrenched. It is logical and intuitive to declare that rising prices ...

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... worst. The problem this time is that most are hoping for the worst and are therefore paralysed into inactivity. Consumers stop spending and businesses stop investing in buildings, equipments and staff. Some of these decisions may be rationale as consumers ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... More companies will fold. Those that survive will continue to cut costs. Both translate to more job losses. This would only stop once the economy finds equilibrium. Once the excesses of the previous boom have been purged out of the financial system. ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... incapable of preventing World War Two and was replaced by the United Nations. What would replace the G20 if they fail to stop the rot? They better not.

PIS expands dealer group

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... merging with Newpark Financial Services to create the country's largest financial advice network. PIS' expansion doesn't stop there, the group's Malaysian subsidiary Standard Financial Planner was granted to Corporate Unit Trust Agent licence in June. ...