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2009: The lost year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Happy new year? Perhaps in 2010. The top central bankers meeting in Basel Switzerland came to the same conclusion yesterday. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet -- wearing his cap as head of the Bank of International Settlements - declared ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... financial crisis. For on this very same day in 1920, the League of Nations also held its first general assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. Wikipedia described the League of Nations as 'an international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... produced the mother of all rate cuts. Last week central banks in Australia, South Korea, India, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Switzerland and the Eurozone all cut interest rates by between 25 and 75 basis points. But the Crocodile Dundees at the BoE showed ...

HFs continue to outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... -25.59 per cent over the same period. These results come after a number of countries including UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Ireland and Australia banned naked short selling in September. Despite continued bad markets, hedge fund managers are slightly ...

Euro SRI market hits $4 trillion

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... over two years to December 2007 across nine European countries including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Switzerland. "SRI is growing dramatically and becoming more refined as an overall approach that meets the diverse interests of European ...

ASIC tightens short-selling rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... markets changed their regulation around shorting. Besides the US and the UK, countries including France, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland and Canada have either tightened their rules or are about to do so. But contrary to other media reports, the temporary ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... extended for another 10 days or more as deemed necessary. Regulatory agencies in the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Ireland and Australia, among others, have also temporarily banned 'naked short selling' in their respective financial markets. ...

Comm Bank expands FP Vic office

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... respectively in its financial planning division. Prior to this role, Strahlhofer worked in corporate banking at UBS Switzerland for more than eight years across risk and relationship management and business development. Meanwhile, Soni also previously ...

AXA IM targets Aus instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... portfolios in European property. The firm's European property investments are mostly based in France, UK, Germany and Switzerland. In addition, AXA IM is providing its structured finance capability across catastrophe bond (cat bonds) and life settlements. ...

Deutsche smashes Euro ETF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... was launched early 2007. Since then the bank released 86 ETFs with 240 listings in Germany, UK, France, Italy and Switzerland. The bank's ETFs cover a range of asset classes including equity, bond, credit, currency, money market and commodity indices. ...