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Recession over! Sigh!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
"The recovery has started." This is the world according to IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard. Or read another way, the global recession is over. My immediate reaction on reading this was a deep sigh. No, not a sigh of relief. But a sigh of disappointment. ...

Neuberger Berman buys Lehman Bros

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Neuberger Berman has agreed to acquire the businesses of Lehman Brothers Trust Company, N.A. and Lehman Brothers Trust Company of Delaware. Neuberger Berman Group which has approximately $194 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2009, announced ...

Hong Kong cracks down on Lehman Bros

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
Following last year's Lehman Brothers collapse, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has revealed there are still 930 cases involving the failed bank still under disciplinary consideration within the Chinese state. HKMA announced last Friday that there ...

TechInvest tops fastest growing fundie table

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... its taking advantage of current conditions." The firm was also appointed to manage the EQT High Income Fund instead of Lehman Brothers Asset Management in August last year. The firm provides investors with three funds; the TI Intercept Capital Fund ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... most recent example of that is Japan," said Lin. "We were quite prepared for the correction because we realised even after Lehman collapsed that the market underestimated [the effect of the US sub-prime crisis] and the market's irrational behaviour after ...

Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Not as good as it got before. Wall Street ended last week's activity with a performance you wouldn't write home to your mother about. So did equity markets in Europe. But Asian markets were strong. Is decoupling back? Looking at last week's stock market ...

Intl equities on a good run...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... markets went into a tailspin. The spread went from just around 10 basis points pre-GFC to a high of more than 364 bps after Lehman Brothers collapsed. It has continued to narrow since then. At present this spread is down to just 50 bps. This narrowing ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... the US taxpayers for salvation. GS (green shoots) happened is what happened. The financial system survived Bear Sterns, Lehman, Fannie and Freddie, Northern Rock, RBS, Iceland, et al during the darkest economic moment since the Great Depression. The ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... cousin - is coming to accept the view that economic conditions are improving. The backup in yields in recent times to pre-Lehman Brothers level could also be an indication that the financial system is normalising. The slope of the US yield curve has ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Ltd will hold an extraordinary general meeting. Great Southern Ltd holds its first creditors' meeting in Melbourne, while Lehman Bros Australia holds a creditors' meeting in Sydney. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce will address a Committee for Economic ...