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Push for redemption freeze lifts: PASL

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... small, have a fiduciary duty to closely monitor the activities of their investment managers, and to act decisively at all times in the interests of their members," he concluded.

Prescriptive regulation is not the answer: Tanner

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... delivers good quality retirement incomes that our constituents are entitled to," said Tanner. Regulation must move with the times and therefore financial services firms should not assume the market and regulatory environment would return to the way it ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... Congressional Budget Office expects this to reach US$1.84 trillion when America's fiscal year ends in September - more than four times the previous year's US$459 billion deficit! If Wall Street wanted to drop, these certainly were good enough reasons ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring ...

Timbercorp growers favour consortium

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... growers and advisors to our proposal," noted a statement on the consortium website. So far, the consortium has set up meeting times with those involved in the possible deal across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. The consortium has acknowledged ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... per cent, net of fees, in the year to June against its benchmark's loss of 6.1 per cent - proof that even in the worst of times, fund managers that make the smart calls can deliver. Not many fund managers back major "contrarian" calls and live to tell ...

Instos reverse traction in alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... cent growth from 2007, new research shows. According to global research by Watson Wyatt in conjunction with the Financial Times, alternative investments dipped 1 per cent last year, contrasting with a 40 per cent increase in the amount of alternative ...

Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... market is filled with pitfalls even in happier days. Fear is again making its way back into investors' psyche. But many times in the past, it has been proved that it is during these times that the biggest gains are made. Think 1987 stock market crash ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... year to the March quarter. Almost double the 4.9 per cent contraction in UK GDP during the same period and more than three times the 2.5 per cent shrinkage in America's economy. Japanese monetary and fiscal authorities may have recently lifted their ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... jobless rate and declaring that it signals that the US recession is not yet over. Wrong! As I've declared many, so many times in the past, employment is a lagging indicator. A recovery in the economy needs to happen first before the jobs market improves. ...