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BNY Mellon launches Ankura Capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... small step for BNY Mellon but a giant leap for Ankura Capital, an Australian equities fund that will ride on the bank's 34-country strong distribution network to attract overseas money. BNY Mellon Asset Management plans to use its global distribution ...

More donations to help Bushfire Appeal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... behalf of our participating funds and their members to everyone impacted by the fires," said Elia. Credit Unions across the country have set up a bushfire relief fund and are relaxing their policies around the early access of term deposits. ATM provider ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... financial crisis and the 2002 US recession. Yet others remain adamant that one day, job losses - which would plunge the country into an economic contraction - would arrive. It is hard to argue with this prognosis especially given the extent of the deceleration ...

FT opens Malaysian office

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... the firm's global resources. Stephen Grundlingh, Franklin Templeton Malaysia regional head for Southeast Asia, said the country is a key market of the firm's investment management business. "This will allow us to deepen our participation in the Malaysian ...

VicSuper and HESTA champion ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... now. "The research that we have now, is simply not sufficient," said Fowler. ESG RA, which has the support of one of the country's largest fund manager Colonial First State, has five main commitments. It aims to publicly state that super funds and financial ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... wholesale funding to banks. Why the banks? Why not? We may never know whether this measure has prevented a bank run in the country. In October, the government handed out $10.4 billion that bulk of which came in the form of pre-Christmas cash payments ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... investments alongside interest rates at 40-year lows, weaker dollar and home ownership incentives all combine to make sure the country avoids a deep and protracted recession. Potential homeowners will also be the beneficiaries of the market downturn ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
No prize for guessing but which G-7 country is suffering a worse hangover than the US? Clue: Its name also starts with the word United. In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that global growth would ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... sucked in into this vortex. This week the US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee will meet to decide on the country's monetary policy settings, and perhaps to again try and reverse the tide. At least, they take only two days to deliberate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... Democratic congressional leaders are pushing for swift passage of the measure before the February 16 recess to try to pull the country out of a deepening recession. LONDON - European stock markets surged more than three per cent Monday, boosted by better-than-expected ...