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ANZ buys ING Aus for $1.76bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
ANZ goes up the ranks of the wealth management and life insurance sectors when it acquired the 51 per cent stake it did not own in a joint venture with ING Group for $1.76 billion - transforming it into a $45 billion fund manager with more than 1,700 ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Caution removes caution. Just as the G-20 announced their caution in removing the fiscal and monetary crutch until the global economy is walking on its own, the word 'cautiously' in the 'cautiously optimistic' is fast disappearing in many an investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger after gains on Wall Street as investors looked optimistically ahead to key economic data due for release this week. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England (BoE) and the Bank of Canada (BoC) all held monetary policy meetings last week. And guess what? Not a single central bank announced a reduction in interest ...

RBC Dexia tops custody survey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
RBC Dexia Investors Services has won the number one spot for best global custody provider in three categories, according to a recent industry survey. RBC Dexia was ranked the top provider of global custody services in the UK, Canada and the "rest of ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Today, America and Canada held their annual Groundhog Day festivities to see whether spring would come early or winter will stretch six weeks more. Groundhog Day is rooted in ancient European folklore and purports that if a groundhog emerges from its ...

Property re-pricing to come in waves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Super funds with high stakes in global property should brace for more pain in the asset class this year although the re-pricing is predicted to come in stages and not necessarily in the order you would expect them to, according to a new survey. Global ...

Former State Street head jumps to RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
Former State Street Australia head of investment services David Travers has left to head up RBC Dexia's Australia office as managing director. Travers is taking up the RBC Dexia flag following a four year stint at State Street. He replaces Scott MacDonald ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Anyone else caught the falling knife? Lower earnings forecasts quickly ended Wall Street's optimism over Santa Obama's promise of a 'single biggest investment' since the 1950s. Like I said in yesterday's commentary, for now this is simply rhetoric. ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Central banks threw in the kitchen sink. In a coordinated move, six major world central banks each cut their benchmark target interest rate by 50 basis points in efforts to stem the global panic. The US Federal Reserve lowered the fed funds rate to ...