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QSuper bulks senior investment team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
QSuper has appointed former QIC head of portfolio design, Damian Lillicrap, as head of strategy and Herbert Chang as head of capital markets. Lillicrap and Chang, together with head of funds management Charles Woodhouse complete the roster of senior ...

Beware the tiny URL

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Online criminals are leaving no virtual stones unturned - targeting finance professionals who are Twitter-happy as their next victims. The popularity of Twitter has given rise to so-called tiny URL links, often used in Tweets to refer to articles or ...

REST deploys $300m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... manager mandates. REST invested $150 million in Credit Suisse's Syndicated Loan Fund, while $100 million was deployed into the Stone Tower Offshore Credit Fund during the December quarter. The fund however pumped another $50 million into the Offshore ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... percentage points. Forecasters make many assumptions for their forecast to be correct. Sorry, I assumed that water will turn to stone, that's why my forecast was off the mark. Sorry. But economies do not operate in a vacuum. At this very moment, the ...

REST ramps up credit exposure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... extended the fund's credit exposure by investing $150 million in the Credit Suisse Syndicated Loan fund and $100 million Stone Tower's Offshore Credit fund in December. Damian Hill, REST chief executive, said the fund researched credit and bank loan ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... 0.9 per cent again in the December quarter -- faster than producers can say pink slip. The US GDP numbers are not set in stone. There are two more revisions to come. But barring a surprisingly big upward revision, the final outcome would be as dour. ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... estimate of US$1.4 trillion stated in October and just US$600-800 billion before that. Is this latest projection now set in stone? Or will it be revised even higher in three months time, and higher still in six months? Remember that many of the assets ...

NGSS on mandate spree

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
The $2.65 billion Non-Government Schools Superannuation Fund has splurged on eight new mandates in a bid to overhaul its international equity portfolio. The super fund's $600 million international equity portfolio now counts Baillie Gifford, Deutsche ...

OzForex clients gain margin trading

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... company that could provide that service for them," said Helm. Both firms however may use this arrangement as a stepping stone for future deals. Helm said the two firms would potentially expand this referral service outside of the existing scope. CMC ...