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Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
How do you solve a problem like Athena? The bears are slowly coming back from the woodworks as the vigilantes of the bond market train their crosshairs from Greece to other Eurozone countries. And we're all getting caught in the crossfire. Is that doom ...

Trades jump for Liquidnet in Asia Pac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
Liquidnet has reported a new quarterly record for principal traded in Asia Pacific equities, with more than $4 billion traded across five core markets. Orders worth $277 (US$257) million were traded on 28 January alone, setting another record for daily ...

Funds want better EMs access

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
Growing appetite for emerging market investment is pushing super funds to think differently about how to gain access to the sector, said Bruce Murphy, managing director BNY Mellon Asset Management in Australia. International equities now make up 23 ...

Ganging up on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
What's it going to be? A strong dollar or a weak dollar policy? The short answer a strong dollar in words, a weak one in deed. Yesterday, I wrote about Uncle Timmy Geithner telling Asia that, "It's very important to the United States, to the economic ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
Have no fear, the Fed is here...to stay. Perhaps spooked by the pause on Wall Street in recent days, the Fed found it necessary to re-assure investors that borrowing rates would remain practically free for an "extended period." As if? Yes, as if the ...

HOSTPLUS scoops top marketing exec

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
The battle between HOSTPLUS and Sunsuper as the super fund of choice for tourism and hospitality workers takes a new twist after Sunsuper's marketing whiz, Wayne Sullivan, joins the rival fund. In a press statement today, HOSTPLUS said it appointed ...

ANZ buys ING Aus for $1.76bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
ANZ goes up the ranks of the wealth management and life insurance sectors when it acquired the 51 per cent stake it did not own in a joint venture with ING Group for $1.76 billion - transforming it into a $45 billion fund manager with more than 1,700 ...

AIST measures investment choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... their superannuation to their needs and those that do may not always make the right decision," she said. Reynolds' comments echo similar suggestions from other industry participants in the past few months from Chris Corneil, managing director, Australia ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Caution removes caution. Just as the G-20 announced their caution in removing the fiscal and monetary crutch until the global economy is walking on its own, the word 'cautiously' in the 'cautiously optimistic' is fast disappearing in many an investment ...

Cooper the competition crusader is coming

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... a basic product, with lower costs, and possibly much larger scale than we we're seeing at the moment." Cooper's comments echo widely-held views that the major cause of the problems consumers confront in superannuation is the system's heavy focus on distributional ...