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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts tip the world's biggest economy into recession. Heightened tensions in the Middle East undermined sentiment further, traders said. At the close of trading on Friday, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies ...

Two ANZ appointments for merged Asia/Pac business

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... bank AmBank in Malaysia and spent over 30 years with Standard Chartered Bank in senior executive roles covering the Middle East, North America, Africa, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Singapore. PlantA(C) and Mohan's new roles are effective 1 November 2012.

Emerging market PE numbers on track

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... year's figures. While the amount of deals done in China decreased, this was offset elsewhere, in greater Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Brazil. Latin America is just one of many markets, but conditions on the ground mimic those across much ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... Federal Reserve's new QE3 stimulus fade amid concerns about weakness in US manufacturing and anti-American unrest in the Middle East. At 0815 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down one point at 4,397. In economic news ...

Sukuk demand to reach US$900bn in five years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
Global demand for Sukuk is forecast to triple from US$300 billion to US$900 billion by 2017, according to recently released estimates from Ernst & Young. Conventional institutions are increasingly demanding Shari'a compliant securities alongside Islamic ...

Politicking befogs equities: AMP Capital

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... Asset Management's head of strategy and research, Stephen Felix named the general election in the US, turmoil in the Middle East, the European crisis and slowing Chinese growth as four factors that could spark a market shock. While the political uncertainty ...

Market shocks likely: Advance Asset Management

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... Felix Stephen, Advance Asset Management head of strategy and research. Elections in the United States, turmoil in the Middle East, the European sovereign debt crisis and a slow down of Chinese growth are the four key factors that could spark a shock ...

Julius Baer buys Merrill Lynch wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... to 251 billion Swiss francs, with two-thirds of the assets being acquired domiciled in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. "This transaction represents a rare opportunity to acquire an international pure-play wealth management business of significant ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... collapse of the eurozone, a US double-dip, hard-landing of China, hard-landing of emerging markets, and a war in the Middle East. Next year could be a global perfect storm." Or yesterday's warning by PIMCO CEO, Mohamed El Arian, that, "This is an unusually ...

Franklin appoints head of sales

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... taking over the role from Adam Quaife who was recently promoted to senior director of Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East, where he will spearhead several new initiatives the company is pursuing in Dubai. "We're very pleased that Keri has agreed ...