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Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... consumers. America is happy. Americans spend. America buys from the rest of the world. The world is happy. Well maybe, except Kim Jung Il.

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... 764 36 71 15.4 AAA 19. Japan 2,344 18 48 170.4 AA 20. China 375 0.28 9 15.7 A+ *External debt is based on 2008 figures except for the US and Norway (2007) These figures are dated and it is safe to assume that gross external debt and/or public debt have ...

West Pymble adviser charged

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... orders permanently prevented him from undertaking the business of advising about securities and of dealing in securities except as permitted by the Corporations Act. ASIC commenced contempt of court proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales ...

China caps executive pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
Developed world economies looking for China to buy their bonds and save their economies could also look to the Asian tiger to solve the problem of excessive executive pay. The Ministry of Finance in China has ordered all state-owned financial institutions ...

JV raises $1bn for Indian infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
The State Bank of India and Macquarie Group raised over $1 billion in capital to invest in Indian infrastructure projects with a goal to raise around $2 billion in additional capital over the next few years. According to a joint statement, global investors ...

Pinnacle to distribute Capital International

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... global equities team, headed by Stephen Docherty. Both global equities teams follow a fundamental investing-focused strategy except Aberdeen manages a more concentrated portfolio. Both teams have also gone through periods of short-term underperformance ...

GFC Problem solved

... solved. Again, not so fast. Walk the talk. Remember the G20 meeting in November last year? The plan was almost identical, except this time there was US$1 trillion cash on the table. One thing that stood out at the time was their promise not to resort ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... price index in January against expectations of a 0.9 per cent fall. The report showed that prices increased in all regions except for the Pacific. And again, even better, the previous month's 0.2 per cent fall was revised to a gain of 0.1 per cent. Now ...

Adviser charged for contempt of court

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... permanently preventing him from undertaking the business of advising other individuals about securities or dealing in securities except as otherwise permitted by the then Corporations Law. ASIC commenced contempt of court proceedings in the Supreme Court ...

Sovereign wealth funds to buy more equities

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Nearly one third of sovereign wealth funds that control over $7 trillion in assets are aiming to increase their investments in equity markets during the second half of 2009, new figures show. According to a survey by FD, 70 per cent of the hedge funds ...