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No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... sure their capital's returned have to console themselves with paltry returns. Government bonds - as measured by the Citigroup world government bond index - gained 1.4% between end-May and end-July. This is a monthly series so I don't have August's numbers ...

MFOs take growth from banks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... too eager to sell their own hedge and mutual funds creating an inherent conflict. Last year a US federal judge ordered Citigroup to pay two clients US$54.1 million for losses in a hedge fund that borrowed billions in an effort to extract higher yields ...

CFSGAM appoints senior resources analyst

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... operating officer He has over 15 years experience as a resource equities analyst and has previously worked for firms such as Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney and HSBC. Mangano is also a trained metallurgist and has worked for more than a decade in the ...

GS, Citi appointed for NSW elec, coal mine sales

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
Goldman Sachs will advise the NSW government on the $3bn sale of the State's electricity generators while Citigroup will act as specialist financial adviser on the sale or lease of the Cobbora coal mine development. "The sale of the State's electricity ...

UK launches bank probe amid Libor scandal

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... the UK Financial Services Authority last week following an investigation into bank lending rates. HSBC, RBS, UBS and Citigroup are also being investigated in connection to the alleged market manipulation that led to the record Barclays fine.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... rise, shrugging off ratings downgrades from Moody's: JPMorgan Chase added 1.6 per cent; Bank of America 1.4 percent; Citigroup 0.5 percent; and Morgan Stanley 1.4 percent. Goldman Sachs though ended 0.2 percent lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Citigroup shareholders reject CEO pay

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
Citigroup shareholders in the US have voted against the bank's plan to pay chief executive Vikram Pandit US$15 million. The shareholder vote, mandated by the "say on pay" legislation under the Dodd-Frank Act, was taken at the firm's annual meeting in ...

Govt names Foreign Investment Review chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... December 2009 and was the Australian managing director of the global investment bank Lazard and a former vice chairman of Citigroup Australia. Prior experience also includes 33 years as an investment banker and working in the funds management and investment ...

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... it is over, we still find ourselves in one of the various phases of the crisis." And then there's Mr. Willem Buiter - Citigroup chief economist, economics professor at the London School of Economics and ex-Bank of England monetary policy committee member ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... natural disasters in 2011. The news added to pressure on financial stocks, which shed 0.3 per cent after poor results from Citigroup added to weak earnings from JP Morgan last week on Wall Street to paint a glum picture for the global banking sector. ...