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Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... told us A.I.G. and its creditors had to be bailed out because they posed a systemic risk, largely because of the credit default swaps portfolio. Those credit default swaps, by the way, are over the counter derivatives that the Fed did not want regulated. ...

Desert Storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... hurting won't heal. You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille." --Kenny Rogers Raise your hands those who saw the Dubai default coming? Given the global financial market's reaction to last week's Desert Storm, it would be safe to assume that the answer ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... been a blow to market sentiment and confidence has been shaken. "I'm not going to pre-empt that it may be as serious as a default, but we do need to know how much exposure companies have and whose debts these are. "Right now, we all have to look at how ...

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... about US$59 billion debt mountain until at least 30 May 2010. "Standstill" my butt. Perhaps this is how you say 'debt default' in Arabic or Urdu. The Middle East country that brought us the tallest building in the world, palm island, indoor snow skiing ...

Bookmakers fund closer to liquidity resolution

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... arrangements for borrowers and recommending where the trustee can take possession of the underlying assets of mortgages in default. According to a fund statement, the book value of the SMML mortgages have been reviewed and written down based on the information ...

First Super refines investment strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... failed Timbercorp assets - had adjusted its investment options to reduce the risk of negative returns. The fund's Growth (default) option for example has been renamed the Balanced option to reflect its new asset allocations. Investments in international ...

Perpetual close to recovering $125m for Mahogany

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... BNY on trust for a number of creditors, including the Mahogany noteholders. Saphir's other main investment is a credit default swap arrangement with LBSF. Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc (Lehmans) the parent entity of LSBF, had guaranteed it would meet ...

SelectingSuper unveils 2009 top super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... Performance Excellence Award. According to Andrew Keevers, associate director of research, the latter award is based on the default investment option performance of workplace super funds, for the 20 year period to 30 June 2009, representing final audited ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... benchmarks, when pension funds manage money over decades, said the fund manager. The fund manager warned that whatever the new default model is going to be, any plans to simply keep pushing fund fees down is a misdirected exercise. "The real target should ...

Cooper throws down super gauntlet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... whether we have too many funds, to whether competition initiatives have failed, to whether the government should run a default super fund, and to why super fund fees are not showing the expected scale effects. Cooper said we've got to be able to ask ...