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ING Australia reviews ING IM mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... reviewing the mandates as part of the firm's normal processes. "There's a contract that has been put in place with finite times and we will have the responsibility for monitoring those mandates throughout the life of those," he said. Brentnall was appointed ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... since the 1930s, US stocks remain the cheapest in two decades as the economy improves." The S&P 500 currently trades at 14.1 times forecast earnings. Bloomberg notes that "except for the months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed," this is ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... hanged it was. Yields on Greece's benchmark 10-year bonds spiked to 9.03 per cent -- the highest since 1998 and nearly three times that of comparable German bonds. Credit default swaps increased to record highs and yields on two-year Greek notes went ...

Rules, rules, rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... to cover the cost of bail outs should another crisis occur. Because "Expecting taxpayers to support the sector during bad times while allowing owners, managers and/or creditors of financial institutions to enjoy the gains of good times misallocates resources ...

America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... securities regulators are considering whether to launch investigations of their own." In a separate report, the Financial Times printed that AIG may sue Goldman over its losses on insurance deals tied to mortgage-backed securities. AIG's loss is reportedly ...

Grass is greener in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... "beggar-thy-neighbour" policy, particularly that of keeping the value of the renminbi "artificially" low. As I've said many, many times before, no amount of pressure would make Beijing kowtow to America's demands. Not if it's not in China's interest. ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... lady already sung the swan song of the US recession? Financial markets are all a-buzz with this question after the New York Times carried a story about the 8 April meeting by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... around how much pay increase they'll get or whether or not they'll accept other job offers, and if so, which one? Yes, the times they have changed - maybe not for the other advanced economies but they certainly have for Australia. Yesterday, the ABS ...

Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... Thrift". Long gone Johnny explained how this is not good for the economy many, many moons ago. The paradox states that during times of recession, if everyone saves instead of spends, aggregate demand falls. This will lower aggregate savings, lower spending ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... four consecutive trading days. Turnover was worth $NZ128 million ($A97.5 million). The number of rises, at 54, was three times the number of falls at 18. A total of 112 stocks traded.