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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open lower after shares on Wall Street slid again on Monday. All three key Wall Street indices were down, as were oil, gold and silver. Copper was up, however. At 0757 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The prices of local shares, property and commodities will fall further in the coming months before the government's stimulus package kicks in and takes the market out of the doldrums, said the panelists of an industry briefing held this morning. Speaking ...

In defense of Citi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The US government's bail-out of Citigroup shows that policymakers have learnt the lessons of September when the collapse of Lehman Brothers launched financial market panic of seismic proportions. The 158-year old Lehman Brothers - may it rest in peace ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Has the US Treasury had a change of heart or merely trying to get on the good side of its boss-elect President Obama? The US$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) will no longer buy the TA (troubled assets) under the RP (relief program). ...

ASIC adjusts redemption rules to help pensioners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial watchdog ASIC said it may offer exemptions to existing government rules on 'frozen' mortgage funds that will allow mortgage fund operators to release funds to unitholders based on 'hardship grounds'. This relief will apply on a case-by-case ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are so large and so interwoven in our financial system that a failure of either of them would cause great turmoil in our financial markets here at home and around the globe. This turmoil would directly and negatively impact ...

Henderson wins $275m fixed income mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
London-based Henderson Global Investors has won a $275.2 million fixed income mandate from Cheshire County Council as administering authority for the Cheshire Pension Fund. According to a statement by HGI, the assets will be invested in the recently ...

Loomis Sayles taps luxury goods and alt energy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
US based investment manager Loomis Sayles is positioning its Global Growth fund to capture global consumer expenditure in luxury electronic items and rising demand for alternative energy sources despite the on going global economic slump. Mark Baribeau ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
Treasurer Wayne Swan has donned his hardhat and launched Australia on a massive $40 billion nation building program centred on three new investment funds designed to fix infrastructure, health and education while also kick starting Australia's regional ...

Attack tax with tact

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
One of the major recommendations that came out of the recent 2020 Summit was for a "root and branch" review of tax system even though we all know this is just code for Prime Minister Rudd wanting to increase, not lower, the tax take. Case in point is ...