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RARE quality found in infrastructure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... utilities, or communications satellite communications networks. Illustrating the opportunities in infrastructure, the US government has committed $A150 billion to national infrastructure projects through their various GFC stimulus packages while the ...

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... loss (US$61.7 billion) in corporate history. It sought more taxpayer money by frightening - nay, blackmailing - the US government that its failure would cause devastating shockwaves not only in America but also in the entire universe. It prepared a Powerpoint ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... government funding. Speaking of which, AIG takes the cake in scaremongering. AIG's Powerpoint presentation to the US government was scarier than Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', or Michael Jackson himself. Bloomberg reported that, in its attempt to secure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... to ease home foreclosures helped mute the impact of weak economic data. Investors were encouraged by details of a US government program designed to help as many as nine million borrowers stay in their homes through refinanced mortgages or loans that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... Resources, materials and the banking sector were lower following Wall Street's 4.2 per cent plunge overnight after the US government injected $US30 billion to prevent the collapse of insurance giant American International Group (AIG). BHP Billiton fell ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... loss? AIG announced that it lost US$61.7 billion in the fourth quarter. The knight in shining armour that it's the US government once again came to the rescue, granting the company another US$30 billion in exchange for its non-cumulative preferred shares. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... stock market was at a five year low at noon, dragged down by QBE Insurance and Rio Tinto as uncertainty about the US government's response to its weak economy weighed on prices. At 1200 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 99.2 points ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... residential property prices plummeting the way they did in the last two years. For example, Shiller lauded the new US government for budgeting US$10 billion on a so-called Home Price Decline Reserve Payments, an insurance fund that effectively provides ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... redistribute income to those who are sure to spend the money. Perhaps not. Because the extra revenue generated by the US government from taxing highly paid Americans will go into retiring its debt obligations. I could see China and other US government ...

Sovereign funds lose out after bank bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
The US government's move to potentially have direct share ownership in the banks bailed out during last year's crisis could dilute the returns of sovereign wealth funds and pensions funds that hold stake in US finance stocks. This week the US government ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

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Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

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Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

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MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

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MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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