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NZ bank credit ratings cut, outlook stable

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... president and analyst at Moody's, told Financial Standard the downgrade reflected the pressures on New Zealand banks and the country's slow recovery from mild recession. She said there had been a decline in bank asset quality. "We don't see it improving ...

RBC Dexia opens Thailand for Aberdeen

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... system: the proprietary SARA (Shareholder Accounting and Registration Application). It is then tweaked to fit with each new country's regulatory environment. Reuter said that having the same global system with the same technology throughout Asia was ...

CFS awards three new alternatives mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... multi-asset investment approach with a wide variety of asset classes including a Global Asset Class Selection strategy, a Stock Country Selection strategy, a Bond Country Selection strategy and a Currency Selection strategy. Tully said that the attraction ...

Super crime loophole to snap shut

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... seeking to change the law. The rule change could affect millions of dollars worth of superannuation assets across the country. At present, superannuation funds and retirement savings accounts are prevented from recognising forfeiture orders issued under ...

Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... could be 'junkier' than another junk. This action alone could serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy because the lower the country's credit rating, the more it has to pay to access funding, the bigger its debt burden, the greater the budget cuts, the weaker ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... Ratings Agency slashed Greece's credit ratings by three notches to B+ due to the massive challenges of correcting the country's finances and Norway suspended the pay of a $US42 million grant to Greece. Bank of New Zealand currency strategist Mike Jones ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... some point." Next we head up north to Japan. Here, we'll hear Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa warning that the country is in a "severe state". It's still in deflation, it's got a huge public debt and now many of its production facilities have ...

Noonan takes ACSI presidency

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... building and construction industry fund Cbus in 2000. The ACSI has over $300 billion under advice, including many of the country's largest industry funds, Local Government Super and industry super fund MTAA.

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... economy - any economy - grows beyond its long-term trend? We get inflation. And by George, we'll sure get it given that the country cannot find enough workers to work in an economy that is only growing at 2.25 per cent (see 2010/2011 forecast). The unemployment ...

Janus sifts through sectors for EM value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... sector not regional portfolios, having a robust, diversified deep portfolio of securities and having an acute awareness of country risk and politics. "We think the next 10 years in emerging markets are going to be a lot more boring, frankly. It's going ...