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Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... in 1979. - The 1990-1991 US recession was partly caused by the spike in the price of oil following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in the summer of 1990. - The 2001 US and global recession was partly caused by the sharp increase in the price of oil in 2000 ...

FinaMetrica in robo advice deal with Swiss private bank

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
Australian-based firm FinaMetrica has developed a sophisticated robo advice tool for a private bank in Switzerland. NBK Private Bank Switzerland will be using FinaMetrica's suitability tool kit, a 15-minute test that looks at the investor's risk tolerance ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... of the global economy). Sure, sure, weep...if you're a producer (or maybe not, in the case of Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Kuwait - they want it to kill off competitors), but consumers should rejoice and... there's more of 'em than suppliers. For instance ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... conflicting interests inside OPEC arise from the differences in its members' oil industries and economies. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and other Gulf producers can extract oil cheaply. They also -- Iraq excepted -- have a lot of cash in the bank. As a ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... the 1990's sent oil prices soaring by 166% -- from a low of US$15.43 a barrel in June 1990 (before Saddam's adventure in Kuwait) to a high of US$41.07 by October of the same year (as Coalition forces prepared to kick Saddam's butt). Gulf War II in 2003 ...

NZ Super CEO appointed deputy chair of IFSWF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF). As deputy, Orr will play second fiddle to chair Bader M. Al Sa'ad of the Kuwait Investment Authority. Orr, who will take on the new role in addition to his current position with the New Zealand Superannuation ...

AustSuper backs away from SYD takeover

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... 40% to 49%. But this surge may have reached its zenith. The consortium of pension funds led by AustralianSuper and the Kuwait Investment Authority regards the company as too expensive. Cross ownership laws have so far prevented Australian institutional ...

MSCI upgrades heighten frontier market concentration risk

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... the index heavily weighted to a small number of regions. "The changes will mean exposure of over 50% to two countries - Kuwait and Nigeria - this concentration will increase risk," Feriani said. Feriani added that it highlights the importance of using ...

SWFs have liabilities to manage too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... oriented products and investment strategies. "There are three kinds of SWFs - natural resources funds (eg Abu Dhabi and Kuwait), foreign reserve funds (eg China and Singapore), and pension reserve funds (eg Australia and New Zealand)," noted the report. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... 2.6 per cent. Falling oil prices also helped stocks move higher. Oil prices dipped 0.5 per cent to $US105 a barrel after Kuwait's oil minister said that OPEC members are in informal talks about raising oil output as the conflict in Libya continues. Oil ...