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Allianz provides BankWest insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... executive, said the firm is pleased it can help facilitate growth by providing dependable cashflow funding. "In these challenging times, access to cash is more vital than ever to enable business owners to finance growth and acquisition, as well as cover ...

Bail-out might breach US constitution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... conclude that it is not only our economy that is at risk, Mr Secretary, but our Constitution, as well," reported the New York Times. Fears the bail-out bill is unconstitutional stem from prohibitions on Congress to bail-out private firms without adequate ...

Defensive fixed income wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... competitor and yielding a 5.96 per cent total return over a three year period. "It gives you a really good idea that when times were very stable you couldn't really see a risk in different portfolios. But now it's really revealed some risk. You have ...

ASIC tightens short-selling rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... shorting has no place in the investment markets and should be illegal. "The reality is, long-only funds are down two to three times more than the long-short funds. The difference is the "emotional" terminology of hedge funds blowing up when they're down ...

HBOS surrenders to Lloyds TSB

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... takeover of HBOS. Britain's government and Financial Services Authority are encouraging the merger, according to BBC, Financial Times and subsequent reports, and they will act to ensure that competition laws will not stand in the way of a merger. No ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... only delayed the eventual cleansing of the financial system. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has warned may times in the past about the dangers of what the market calls 'moral hazard' - when the government steps in to save institutions ...

AIG Australia insulated from US woes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... give the government an ownership stake in troubled insurance giant American International Group," reported the New York Times this morning. The US Fed has just confirmed the arrangement. "The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday, with the full support of ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... such as the 1930s depression, it also allowed the financial system to purge the excesses (debt) built up during the boom times. Economic health was restored, expansion progressed, excesses built up and then cleansing. This was how the US economic cycle ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... only delayed the eventual cleansing of the financial system. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has warned may times in the past about the dangers of what the market calls 'moral hazard' - when the government steps in to save institutions ...

Tough times herald education boom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
Tough economic times and a tight labour market is a potential windfall for Kaplan Professional as financial service employees' re-skill and set themselves apart from the competition. Warren Jacobson, Kaplan Professional chief executive, said the nature ...