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Divide super for members: Rainmaker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... in the appropriate fund, according to Alex Dunnin, Rainmaker Information director of research. Speaking at the Thomson Reuters Superannuation Governance Forum yesterday, Dunnin said competition between retail super funds and not-for-profit funds is an ...

SmartStream appoints Walsh

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... joins SmartStream after 21 years in sales, marketing and general management roles at leading information provider, Thomson Reuters. This included 13 years in Asia Pacific with eight of those spent based in Australia. Walsh will be seeking to provide ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... floating rate securities. Half a dozen major banks have equity stakes in Yieldbroker while Omgeo is part owned by Thomson Reuters.

Private equity crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... will suffer the most in the current crisis. The same cannot be said about the entire wealth management industry. Thomson Reuters data show that Australian private equity deals have grown 83 per cent year-on-year since 2001. Eight years ago, 28 deals ...

Search for equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... districts, with consumers reducing their spending and businesses concerned over the economic outlook. The preliminary Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 57.5 in October from 70.3 in the previous month -- the largest point-decline ...

Bad news galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... International Group's (AIG) AA minus senior debt credit rating on credit watch. News on the global economy were not good either. Reuters reported that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) now sees global economic growth in 2008 at 3.9 per cent, down ...

Growth and inflation updates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... direction of US interest rates. Markets will focus on reports on advance retail sales, July CPI and the University of Michigan/Reuters consumer sentiment index and industrial production. Slow growth. US retail sales are expected to decline by 0.1 percent ...

Sovereign bonds bouncing back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... strong that second quarter 2008 issues are up 43 per cent on the same time last year, according to the latest Thomson Reuters Deals Express report. If we take government agencies out of the analysis, sovereign issuance experienced a 60 per cent increase ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... supply. Oliver's comments come as oil approaches a new record and after OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri told Reuters that oil speculation is so extreme daily trading volumes are now 15 times bigger than actual demand. "Supply and demand have ...

JPMorgan joins debt platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... derivatives and fixed rate securities. In 2007, the online platform extended its coverage into Asia, interfacing with Reuters' RTFI trading platform and enabling Asian based institutional investors direct access to Yieldbroker's dealer network.