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Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Volatility is not just a market barometer of investor sentiment, it is an emerging asset class too, said a fund manager that has amassed $5.8 billion on volatility strategies since 1999. French fund management giant Credit Agricole Asset Management ...

Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Yesterday's strong rally on Wall Street was followed by a flat performance overnight. Is Wall Street catching its breath before taking another jump? Or is it taking a deep breath for diving? Such is the uncertainty created by the current global economic ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
US President Barack Obama is bringing David Riccardo back from the dead. When the US unveiled its first bailout acronym - TARP -- for the financial sector TARP - last year, I wrote about a theory taught us budding economists called the 'Riccardian equivalence.' ...

Morgan Stanley and Citi to merge

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Morgan Stanley and Citi are combining their resources to create the world's largest wealth manager boasting 20,000 financial advisors. Morgan Stanley and Citi announced yesterday that it would combine Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Has the US Treasury had a change of heart or merely trying to get on the good side of its boss-elect President Obama? The US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will no longer buy the TA (troubled assets) under the RP (relief program). ...

Three wise economists

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Hopeful signs that the squeeze on the credit markets is beginning to loosen gave Wall Street another leg up overnight. The Dow closed 4.7 per cent higher, the S&P 500 ended 4.8 per cent up and the Nasdaq rose by 3.4 per cent at the finish. It was the ...

Japan bank buys $11bn of Morgan Stanley

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) bought more than $11 billion in Morgan Stanley equity for a 21 per cent interest in the company, a deal that forms an alliance between the two firms to pursue corporate and investment banking opportunities. The ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Volatile trading continued on Wall Street overnight as investors continued to digest the implications of the Lehman Brothers' collapse on the financial system. Equities were whipsawed, first sliding on the US Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest ...

Angels targeting SMEs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Sub-prime pushed private equity out of the news but when it all settles down and the focus returns to building businesses, one sector that will get more attention is angel investing. Angel investors are like venture capital investors except they get ...

Govt creates super advisory

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
The federal government has created a Superannuation Advisory Group to provide technical expertise and consultation on relevant proposals within the superannuation industry. The Superannuation Advisory Group met at Parliament House in Canberra for the ...