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Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... have announced the highest CPI monthly number on record and way above expectations." As if the inflation problem weren't enough, the US and UK national debt are now higher or on par with their respective GDP, putting more pressure on their governments ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... special review of placement agent activity given these and earlier disclosures," she added. "Gathering information is not enough. We remain firmly committed to pursuing a full and fair examination that the special review will provide, and to backing ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... and getting shorty, investors could also take this as an indication of the Fed's confidence that the economy is strong enough to withstand a non-zero fed funds rate.

Dubai games

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... all over newspaper pages, websites, web blogs, etc. - Abu Dhabi hands Dubai a US$10 billion cheque. This amount would be enough for Nakheel - the real estate unit of Dubai World, a holding company owned by the Dubai government - to repay the US$4.1 billion ...

Instos gain carbon footprint data

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... assets. But he said accurately assessing the carbon footprint of a portfolio is hard because listed companies don't publish enough data. Northern Trust partnered with Trucost, which according to the custodian, holds one of the most comprehensive databases ...

Pengana finds gems in emerging companies

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... capacity in our fund, kept under $450 million," he said. The end result is flexibility - with the management team nimble enough to look at the smallest of the small end of the market, and correct any mistakes in their portfolio quickly, said Prendergast. ...

Boardrooms lack female directors: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... set gender targets. "We prefer companies to achieve gender equity through voluntary targets, but there comes a time when enough is enough - and Australia's professional women have just about reached that point," said Ruth Medd, chair of WOB. She said ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... keep propping up the banks for as long as they want. Even if all that were not true, the A.I.G. bailout alone is reason enough to send you back to Princeton. First you told us A.I.G. and its creditors had to be bailed out because they posed a systemic ...

Desert Storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... remain the same. Yes, Moody's and Standard & Poor's quickly downgraded all Dubai government-related debt. But not quick enough. Like the subprime loans, the CDO's, etcetera, they moved after the fact. You and I and our dogs could do the same. The difference ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... will be verified and they still lie anyway. "It's almost as if there's an optimal degree of lying. That if you don't lie enough, maybe your investors will go to someone else. If you lie too much, then your investor will be pissed and go away, too." Not ...