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A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... Federal Reserve Chairman Big Bernanke delivered to the financial world at the Fed's annual monetary symposium held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on 27 August 2010. Wall Street stopped... listened... and rejoiced. Neither the US Commerce Department's slicing ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... more clues tonight whether we're really headed back into the abyss when Big Ben addresses world central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He's going to talk on "The Economic Outlook and the Federal Reserve's Policy Response". But he could yak all he ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Australian markets have received strongly negative leads from offshore trading on Friday, with key indices substantially lower and key commodities also down heavily. At 0743 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

Aviva Investors mines Asia for mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Aviva Investors Australia is expanding aggressively into the Asian market to plug the $4.4 billion hole left by the sale of Aviva Australia's insurance to NAB/MLC. Craig Bingham, chief executive at Aviva Investors Asia Pacific, said the firm is working ...

Detox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... At Spain and Portugal. Both of which announced harsh fiscal policy actions aimed at climbing out of the debt and deficit hole they dug themselves in -- their growth outlook is not looking too flash now. Portugal has frozen public sector wages, restricted ...

Macq Life upgrades risk products

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... how policies are put together and, importantly, how they are paid out," said Delaney. "Not all clients fit into the pigeon hole the industry creates for them and that's something we really need to address."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
The Australian has received generally positive leads from overnight trading offshore, with Wall Street up marginally, precious metals higher, and European markets flat to higher. Oil and base metal copper were lower, however. On the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... last week, President Barack Obama applauded the step forward on financial reform. "Even as we dig our way out of this deep hole, it's important that we address the irresponsibility and recklessness that got us into this mess in the first place," said ...

Fiducian wins PGA golf naming rights

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
Fresh off Tiger Woods creating golfing pandemonium in Melbourne, Fiducian Group has been announced as the naming rights sponsor for the Australian PGA Legends Championship. The deal means Fiducian Group will invest more than $100,000 over three years ...

Wait no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... the "trend is your friend's" back. "Don't fight the Fed" is another truism on Wall Street. At the Kansas City Fed's Jackson Hole conference, Chairman Ben noted that the global economy is beginning to heal. No, this is not the good news part. The good ...