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Pepper acquires Spanish loan business Celeris

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... (Spain) SL. The transaction is another step on the ongoing European expansion of the mortgage lender, which started in Ireland in June 2012. "In Spain, we intend to provide an extensive range of loan management, administration, and collection services ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... rates for the risk that sometime, one day, they might not get their money back. This has happened in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, etc. But it won't happen in the US. We've seen this too. Remember August 2011? On the fifth of that month, Standard ...

Prime Value boosts BDM team

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... Manager, Prime Value Asset Management has appointed former adviser partnership manager at Russell Investment Group, Jake Ireland as national distribution manager. Prior to his seven year stint at Russell, Ireland was a business development associate ...

Euro endurance is lesser of two evils

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... northern Europe dragged into recession. McMahon says that Germany had more than US$300 billion of exposure to Spain and Ireland alone at the end of 2011. While the economic costs of a break-up of the eurozone are highly prohibitive, the strategist says ...

Omega bullish on sovereign investing

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... Investors research has shown. Despite the European government bond crisis brought on by Italy, Spain Greece, Portugal and Ireland, the global government bond market has in the last 12 months returned 10% for a very low amount of risk. Mathew McCrum ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... choking its economy with tougher austerity so that it can borrow more? Remember the time when mere hints that Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal were about to ask for a bailout sent markets a-tumbling down? This time markets are willing Spain to go ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... non-compliance with the macroeconomic adjustment or precautionary programme." Under these conditions, the PIG - Portugal, Ireland and Greece - already qualify for the OMT. Spain is reportedly waiting for more details (as in, how strict or less strict ...

Principal Global gets $150m QFII quota

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... January this year and will be offered on the basis of qualification as a non-US institutional investor fund domiciled in Ireland. Jim McCaughan, chief executive of Principal Global Investors said the firm is well-positioned by developing a pooled fund ...

RBC appoints director of client operations

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... Macquarie Investment Management. He has also worked for Northern Trust and Deutsche Bank in senior management positions in Ireland. In his new role, Hogan will assume responsibility for managing client operations including custody, fund administration ...

Bad news? Where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... as investors ignored reports that Spain's 10-year bond yield jumped above 7.0% -- you know, the level at which Greece, Ireland and Portugal asked for a bailout. No wait, Spain already did and the German Parliament just approved its a,-100 billion rescue ...