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Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... growing louder that Wall Street - and the world - appears to be just waiting for the official announcement. Just like Christmas comes on the 25th of December or New Year's on the 1st of January, the Fed will come bearing the gift of QE2 on the 3rd of ...

Challenger to open redemptions on mortgage fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
Challenger's Howard Mortgage Fund proposes to make $850 million of funds available for investor redemptions by Christmas, as part of a major restructuring to improve returns and liquidity. In a statement, Challenger said it will ask all its mortgage ...

Cuffe charity fund tilts to growth assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... said. The Third Link Growth fund previously had investments in global credit but Cuffe sold the position just before Christmas last year. However, he believes the market has overreacted with the European debt issues and has re-invested money back into ...

Kinetic wins CBUS mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... confirmed the boutique fund manager had received a substantial injection in funds from CBUS. The mandate was awarded before Christmas last year, but was funded at the end of March -- taking Kinetic's current FUM to just over $400 million. The CBUS mandate ...

Man charged in multi-million dollar fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... transfer was what alerted the police about the fraud and all accounts were frozen, noted SMH. The fraud occurred on Christmas Eve seven years ago, and while most of the money have been recovered, around $3.4 million were gambled away on a casino boat ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... fewer-than-expected private sector job losses in February and reports of the decline in planned layoffs in the Challenger Gray & Christmas survey. For extra believability, I would also tag in the Greek story. Yields on Greek bonds fell last night after ...

FuturePlus operations head in shock exit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... LGSS is due to have its monthly board meeting this month - its first board meeting since the early reports broke over Christmas and the new year. Also later this month, FuturePlus will hold its board meeting, which is when the petition to remove Powis ...

Synchron grows adviser base by 40pc

COMNPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... of 44 new advisers last year. Synchron now has 154 advisers. The dealer group aims to have 200 advisers on board by Christmas 2010. Of these, 20 of the 44 new advisers were appointed in the last quarter of 2009. Most of the advisers came from Queensland ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... Obama is going forward on bank regulation," he said. "There was a confluence of events. "We had a good run over the Christmas period, so maybe there's just a little unwinding of some Christmas excess." BHP, the market's biggest stock, fell $1.16, or ...

Season's Greetings from the Financial Standard team

This is the final online newsletter from Financial Standard this year. The editorial team wishes you all a merry Christmas and a prosperous new year. The first online newsletter next year will appear on January 11 but until that time, the website will ...