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How high and how long

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." These words from Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities, have again been brought to life by two opposing monetary prescriptions by two central banks - further interest rate hikes for the ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
It's times like these that those who want to spook the market have their moment. A time when investors are anxiously gnawing on their fingers waiting for the final verdict. That verdict of course is that one single number contained in the US Non-farm ...

Click rates rise at ESI Super website

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
More members are flocking to ESI Super's website compared with two years ago - some reportedly visited the website 200 times in one year due to uncertainty around super legislation. A recent survey found that financial awareness and potential changes ...

Abu Dhabi sovereign fund chief missing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... Nahyan, has been reported missing after a plane crash, according to international newspapers. UK newspapers including the Times and the Telegraph reported that Sheikh Ahmed's glider crashed into a lake in Morocco on 26 March. The Abu Dhabi Investment ...

ING focuses on executive governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... Europe-based ING Group's top 200 managers have signed a company memorandum that binds them to act with integrity at all times. Signatories to the principle's vow to act with more integrity, be more open and clear, respect each other and strive to be ...

Van Eyk travelling quite well: Thomas

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... well," he said. "Like many groups we tightened belts and we put a headcount freeze on. We've since relaxed that in recent times and we're starting to hire again and hired a couple of new analysts and we've got other areas that we're trying to fill." ...

Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... ultimately destroy shareholder value, said a governance expert. Dean Paatsch, director at RiskMetrics, gave a candid and, at times, very confronting speech at the CMSF this week about how some trustees have failed their members by not being critical ...

Hands off SMSFs, warns assoc

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... their FUM and contributions, amount to at least $7 billion annually or $9,000 per SMSF member. This is approximately four times the per-capita amount received by members of non-SMSFs.

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... condemned to repeat it." How often have we heard this - and variation of this -- "wise saying" before? Many, many, many times. But for financial markets, remembering history on the second week of March 2010 has not helped much - not when history shows ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... witness to my father's business deals for the most part of my life (until I discovered girls). You've seen this too. How many times have we observed China making these kinds of statements every time the heat is on? Undoubtedly, this is in response to ...