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Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Horrendous! Terrible! Shockingly disappointing! These are just some of the adjectives the financial press quoting the analysts, quoting the economists, quoting the experts used to describe last night's disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... too. Domestic final sales slowed to 1.1 per cent in the June quarter from 1.3 per cent previously. But my, my, hey, hey! Rock and roll is here to stay. This includes net exports - the difference between what America buys from abroad to what it sells. ...

Ambassador wins Copper Rock mandate in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
Ambassador Funds Management Services has entered into an arrangement to represent US-based manager, Copper Rock Capital Partners, in Australia and New Zealand. Copper Rock, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, provides growth equity strategies for ...

Platforms up 30pc to $391bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
The 90 percentage point turnaround in equity returns in the year to end March has propelled a 30 per cent bounceback in the size of the platform market. According to Rainmaker's recently released Advantage Report, platform FUA climbed back to $392 billion ...

NY fund sues BP over oil spill losses

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The $152 billion New York State Pension Fund is suing British Petroleum over losses from the oil spill disaster. In a press statement, New York state comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, the trustee of the NY fund, said he was hiring law firm Cohen Milstein ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... path." And this is what's at the heart of the current crisis. Monetary and fiscal authorities are caught between a very hard rock and an even harder place. The current financial market upheaval is creating downward pressure on a still fragile recovery. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
The Australian stock market was more than three per cent lower at noon, as investors poured out of equities following disappointing news on the US economy, concerns over Hungary's financial situation, and softer commodities prices. At 1202 AEST, the ...

CFSGAM targets global trends with commodities fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... allocation.He said they should consider spinning off their resources allocation in the portfolio and dividing it into energy, hard rock resources and agriculture exposures. The fund could form part of the portfolio's agriculture allocation. The fund ...

RIP May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
It's a wrap! Once again, the age-old adage "sell in May then go away" re-asserted itself in 2010. It may be the "Year of the Tiger" in the Chinese calendar but for financial markets May is easily the "Month of the PIGS". With only one trading day to ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
In the words of Coney Francis, "Who's sorry now?" "I tried to warn you somehow You had your way Who's sorry now..." Shocked and awed. Yes, Virginia, this was how speculators felt when they were forced to cover their short positions after the European ...