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NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... LGFS will be fully covered by its insurer," he said. The notes, marketed as Rembrandt notes, were created by ABN Amro, rated AAA by Standard & Poor's and distributed by LGFS. Jagot said a reasonably competent ratings agency could not have rated the product ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... both domestically and overseas - appears to be exaggerating the impact of the race." Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US's AAA credit rating sparked a global stock market sell-off in August 2011. Another danger is that the announcement of further quantitative ...

SelectingSuper 2012 awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... he said. Award winners will be selected from more than 120 eligible funds and products that have achieved a SelectingSuper AAA quality assessment by Rainmaker, including those that have only recently made the grade. The awards are proudly sponsored by ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... the challenges that faced the market last year - Arab Spring, Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster, USA no longer AAA, European crisis hitting Spain and Italy, the BRICs and emerging countries instituting tighter policies to rein in inflation. ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... they were unfazed by the 21% dive in Burberry scripts nor Moody's threat to lower America's rating "probably to Aa1" from Aaa if budget negotiations fail to "lead to specific policies that produce a stabilization and then downward trend in the ratio ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... 0.8% -- someone (I again refuse to name names) warned us that, "With a government forced to return to surplus to maintain its AAA rating and thus reduce stimulus spending, credit growth running at 35-year lows and decelerating, a slowdown and likely ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... more than America's (in US$ terms so we don't compare apples with oranges) so far this year - up 10.1%. Why not? Australia is AAA-rated while the US only has two A's. Australia has a lower budget deficit. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... Standard & Poor's tried to extinguish hope and prayers and wishes. Remember that day, the day when it snipped one A off America's AAA rating? Recall the fear? Cyberspace was filled with anxiety and warnings after the downgrade, the central being the ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... Rising borrowing costs and austerity measures.... and contagion. Moody's lowered Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg's Aaa credit rating outlooks to negative due to "rising uncertainty" over the debt crisis. Yes, the song remains the same. But thanks ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... sovereign debt crisis, the Arab Spring (and surging oil prices), the Japanese tsunami/nuclear reactor meltdown, the US losing its AAA credit rating, North Korea, Iran, etc. - at 1334.8 points, the S&P 500 index remains nearly double what it was three ...