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Airing the dirty sub-prime linen

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
Did he jump or was he pushed? Either way Merrill Lynch boss Stanley O'Neal will be wearing a large golden parachute to ensure his soft landing, despite the investment bank's recent announcement of spectacular sub-prime losses. As Bloomberg tells it ...

Chinese walls and windows

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
As the saying goes, 'when one door closes, another one opens' but with China, it's more a case of opening a small foreign investment window while firmly locking the door. Early last month, Chinese regulators announced that the government would allow ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
While recent downpours have seen Australian farm-export earnings forecasts raised by $900 million, storms have not been so kind to coal exporters, or to major commercial energy users who almost ran out of gas last week. It seems that Mother Nature has ...

Small cap oversight costs significant alpha

... quant analysis reveals the fund manager's inherent biases and whether their overall and long-term returns are due to skill or luck. "We do the analysis and it's up to the super fund to decide whether they are satisfied with the fund manager's performance ...

Ex-State Street sales head joins Citi

Citi has appointed a former State Street head of sales as its new vice president of sales, Citi Prime Finance. Trevor Harrison joined Citi last week and is reporting to John Gregory, director of Citi's Prime Finance business. Prior to joining City ...

Private equity redefines mum-and-dad investing

... impact portfolios like random shots, introducing performance volatility that makes skill even harder to distinguish from luck." On the upside, Goddard said the rush of private equity 'raiders' into the listed market is driving chief executives to 'think' ...

Industry funds show master trusts a clean pair of heels

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
... consecutive surveys, performed over one, three and five years, show industry super funds' advantage over master trusts isn't just luck. The research, commissioned by Industry Fund Services and carried out by Rainmaker Information, showed that industry ...

Private equity shakes up public markets

Who are the ultimate winners in the private equity boom? Corporate adviser and company director Linda Nicholls said the answer lies in the story about pirates and the 'little shark'. She said pirates and private equity players have a lot in common because ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
In a bid to ensure the supply of farm labour, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) has asked the Federal Government to reduce the withholding tax on foreign workers from 29 to 13 per cent saying that the $7 billion horticulture industry could lose ...

Hands off our turf: Westpac