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Even Macquarie has to pay for funding

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... book, which is 35 per cent more than a year ago. Ward said the group's holdings of cash and liquid securities were three times normal levels and would allow the group to operate for a year without access to funding. "It is not a time to issue if you ...

JPMorgan Chase launches IPO STRATAS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... IPO Target Redemption Strategic Asset Securities (IPO STRATAS), a structured product based on an index that returned seven times more than the S&P 500 in the past five years. IPO STRATAS was created with Citibank and is offered exclusively to their investors. ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... less than 2 per cent, growth in emerging market and developing countries is expected to ease but still be more than four times higher at 6.9 per cent. But given that this region is currently sitting on 7.8 percent this drop still puts them in prime position. ...

Equity Trustees super six times bigger

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Equity Trustees Limited has increased its superannuation business by $542 million over a four-year period thanks to the cumulative power of minor acquisitions. "When the [superannuation business] was acquired in 2003 it was around $108 million now its ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... it has helped to start clean up some of the excesses of over-lending and paying poor attention to risk criteria. In these times of turbulence however, markets which usually bemoan government influence start to turn to it for guidance. Melinda Cilento ...

Member protection costs will hurt: AUSfund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... fund returns." "Now is the time for funds that have put member protection and ERFing matters to the side over recent good times to bring them back to the table. They need to decide if bearing these costs are in the best interest of its members." According ...

So much to do, so little time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... out. "On housing, we must trust Americans with the responsibility of homeownership and empower them to weather turbulent times in the housing market," he said. Notwithstanding this, the President proposed a system of tax-free bonds to help home owners ...

Blair joins JPMorgan Chase

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... Blair will bring our leaders and clients a unique and invaluable global perspective that is especially critical in turbulent times like these," Jamie Dimon, chief executive at JPMorgan Chase said. Blair said in a statement that he looked forward to advising ...

Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... Citigroup recently agreeing to sell a $7.5 billion stake to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, according to the New York Times. As a result of the Singapore deal, GOSIC will end up with a 9 per cent stake in UBS once the convertible notes switch into ...

Not much of a fix from the freeze

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... continue to make repayments. Estimates attributed to Barclays Capital and Moody's (and reported by Reuters and the New York Times) put the number of households likely to benefit at around 250,000, between one fifth and one third the number of households ...