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BTIM remodels AQR mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... (BTIM) has altered its international equities mandate with AQR Capital Management, dropping the fund manager's currency and country selection strategies. AQR historically provided active returns across currency management, country selection and stock ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... fourth quarter US National Accounts are released or when the NBER finally stamps its seal many more months later that the country is already in recession. If it looks like a duck....... Citigroup - like Lehmann Brothers and other financial institutions ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... points. TOKYO - Japanese stocks ended slightly higher on Monday as investors hunted for bargains, despite confirmation the country is in recession and disappointment about the outcome of the G20 summit on the financial crisis. The benchmark Nikkei-225 ...

Trustees should adopt system-wide policies: Sherry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... choice-of-fund without the related time and cost issues. The scheme stands to benefit more than 90 per cent of businesses in the country. But the introduction of a national clearing house system is only one of many government measures that Senator Sherry ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... Japan is reporting its third quarter real GDP growth figures today - more likely than not, this will officially add the country to the list of economies that have contracted. More dominos will fall as the G20 Generals think and ponder. However, this ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... contraction. The task at hand has proved to be too heavy for individual governments to tackle in a piecemeal fashion. One country nationalising its bank, another throwing money at lending institutions, another reducing tax rates, another guaranteeing ...

Westpac number one ADI branch owner

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... than all community banking brands combined. CommBank was found to have the most branches with 1,007 spread around the country, followed by Westpac with 826, ANZ with 816 and NAB with 774. Following the merger of CommBank and BankWest, and the expected ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... more prominence in the future. Speaking through a video link, President Ramos-Horta used his welcome address to urge the country's investment professionals to use their influence to help shape the future global economy. For example, he said there needs ...

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... World War. What is more, Swanson said the US has several 'shock absorbers' today that didn't exist in 1929. Among them the country's deposit insurance guarantee, low interest rates and stronger balance sheets due to more stringent corporate governance ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... limited-liability companies that will buy AIG's toxic assets. So were the Swedes. Sweden's national debt office seized the country's largest publicly traded investment bank - 205-year old D. Carnegie & Co. AB - because its failure would 'jeopardise the ...