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Janus pools $660m in Global Research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... Monitoring has no teeth to it in the sense that you're simply observing what has happened and reporting that to other authorities. That, to me, is not a value-add." "But what we consider to be somewhat of a distinctive edge at Janus is the fact that ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... and oil. This will prompt calls for central banks to end quantitative easing and/or tighten monetary policy. Chinese authorities have already tighten and will be tightening some more to prevent their economy from overheating and reverse the upward momentum ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... 23.48 points, or 0.35 per cent, at 6,804.45 points. TOKYO - Japanese shares closed lower on Wednesday after Tokyo authorities said levels of radioactive iodine exceeded safe limits for infants for two consecutive days amid a deepening food radiation ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... anxiety among investors but the key word here is some. And this is because, similar to the GFC and Europe's debt crisis, authorities would not sit idly by and wait for Armageddon. Not only because they feel sorry for the Libyans or the Egyptians or the ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... their toll this year. And then there's inflation. It's risen so fast in emerging economies, including China, that authorities there are tightening their respective policies, including China. But while the fear of inflation had reached the shores of developed ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... financial markets. Darn it, another opportunity to pick up bargains gone! And Europe's sovereign debt crisis and the authorities implementation of severe austerity measures to balance their budgets? Not to mention, the still punitive interest rates being ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... end of the Lunar New Year holiday to raise interest rates by 25 basis points for the third time in four months as authorities ramp up efforts to curb borrowing and tame inflation. Markets generally were given a strong cue by Wall Street, where the Dow ...

Year of the Rabbit, year of acquisitions: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... Pacific. Just last week, Schroders suggested that inflation problem may lead to overheating in China, while Chinese authorities are moving to tighten policy to stabilise the region's growth. "It is expressing itself via higher wages and higher raw material ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... bond vigilantes have been spooked by recent reports that Europe would put up a united stance against them. European authorities are close to reaching broad agreement on strengthening the European Financial Stability Fund, setting up a permanent rescue ...

Indonesia looking to deepen its capital markets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... be deep enough to absorb the impact of any inflationary fears. To build more depth into the bond market, 13 state authorities last week said they were forming a stablisation fund that would step in to buy bonds if needed. The grouping includes four of ...