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Sovereigns in a league of their own

... Consulting, said that the concerns are warranted where the sovereign fund has an unclear financial objective, other than to chase returns higher than the cash rate. "If there are no financial objectives, the implicit return on capital may be treated ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... 2,341.52. LONDON - UK stocks rallied 3.5 per cent as banks led gains after a raised offer for Bear Stearns from JPMorgan Chase & Co soothed market jitters about the financial sector. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,689.1 points, up 193.9 or 3.53 per cent. FRANKFURT ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... 5173.2. NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average ended higher on Monday helped by an advance in the shares of JPMorgan Chase & Co after it agreed to a buyout of troubled Bear Stearns, raising hopes that fallout from the Wall Street bank's demise may ...

Bear Stearns a 'reasonable risk': JPMorgan

JPMorgan Chase chief executive and chairman Jamie Dimon has said that the group is taking reasonable risk and have built in an appropriate margin for error in the proposed acquisition of Bear Stearns. Local banking stocks are down today after news of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... its lending rate to financial institutions on Sunday to increase the cash available to the banking system, and JPMorgan Chase said it would buy rival bank Bear Stearns, which needed funding assistance last week to avert collapse. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... negative but the S&P 500 index traded up marginally as a decline in bank stocks, including Bank of America Corp and JPMorgan Chase & Co, punctured an earlier rally. Traders said there was disappointment with aspects of bond insurer Ambac Financial Group ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... cash investments under the Local Government Act. Gold echoed his sentiments. "In NSW for example, councils are advised to chase income. The CDOs and other structured investments that were packaged up by the banks exactly suited these [councils] and what ...

JPMorgan Chase launches IPO STRATAS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
JPMorgan Chase has developed IPO Target Redemption Strategic Asset Securities (IPO STRATAS), a structured product based on an index that returned seven times more than the S&P 500 in the past five years. IPO STRATAS was created with Citibank and is ...

Zurich sets up Climate Change council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008

US titans fall, Australia will rise

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
How the mighty have fallen. From Merrill Lynch to JPMorgan Chase, the world's investment banking stalwarts have all shed blood from the US sub-prime scalping - but Australian fund managers are weathering the storm. Last week, Merrill Lynch reported ...