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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... make US$70 billion available, and extra liquidity injections from the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank, failed to stem the financial market panic. Consensus has shifted to a more than 80 per cent probability -- from ...

RBC Dexia scores two

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... Luxembourg-based funds, which have already been transitioned. Vontobel Asset Managment is part of Bank Vontobel AG, an international Swiss private bank, specialising in asset management for sophisticated private and institutional clients. The second ...

SAM green funds re-branded to Vanguard

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... SAM since their establishment in 2001. Companies selected for inclusion within these funds are independently assessed by Swiss-based SAM, which conducts annual sustainability assessments on companies globally. SAM scores companies in terms of their corporate ...

Private banker joins Macquarie

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... banker Tom O'Donnell has joined Macquarie Private Bank's Sydney-based client advisory team. O'Donnell joins Macquarie from Swiss private banking organisation Rothschild, where he was based in Guernsey, situated within the English Channel. He has over ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... points, up 69.39 or 0.97 per cent. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed at 5,142.1 points, up 64.06 or 1.26 per cent. ZURICH - The Swiss market index closed at 7,778.93 points, up 125.22 or 1.64 per cent. TOKYO - The Nikkei stock average rose 0.35 per cent ...

US dollar slips after Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... took a lot of comfort in the inflation numbers," Gilmore said. In other late New York trading, the dollar eased to 1.0338 Swiss francs from 1.0382 francs, and fell to 1.0046 Canadian dollars from 1.0122. Gold for current delivery closed at $US862.80 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... one-month peak as banks roared higher, with credit fears easing after a capital boost by Lehman Brothers and a write-down by Swiss Bank UBS AB. The Nikkei closed up 532.94 points at 13,189.36, its first time above 13,000 for three weeks and its biggest ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... offering quelled fears it was headed toward a fate similar to Bear Stearns and a $US19 billion ($A20.83 billion) write-down by Swiss bank UBS AG reinforced the view that the banks were aggressively scrubbing their books clean of soured investments. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... was volatile as a slide in China's main stock index in Shanghai and $US19 billion ($A20.83 billion) in new writedowns for Swiss bank UBS rattled investors. The Hang Seng Index ended up 1.26 per cent, or by 288.26 points, at 23,137.46. WELLINGTON - The ...

Swiss sustainable FUM up 67 per cent

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
The Swiss sustainable investment market jumped 67 per cent last year to $33 billion at the end of December 2007, according to investment consulting and research company onValues. The Zurich based firm surveyed 19 investment managers on "specialist sustainable ...