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Japan bank buys $11bn of Morgan Stanley

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) bought more than $11 billion in Morgan Stanley equity for a 21 per cent interest in the company, a deal that forms an alliance between the two firms to pursue corporate and investment banking opportunities. The ...

Investment titans now governed by Fed

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Two of the world's investment banking giants Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have morphed into bank holding companies - a historic move to avert a disastrous turn similar to Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. Goldman Sachs announced in a statement yesterday ...

CalPERS halts lending to big four

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has temporarily stopped the lending of troubled Wachovia, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and State Street shares. Anne Stausboll, interim chief investment officer of CalPERS, said they had put up a temporary roadblock ...

Dec 2007 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... Will US$247 billion be enough this time to contain the spread of the financial sector cancer? And it is spreading. Morgan Stanley was reported overnight to be in talks to with HSBC or China's CITIC Group or Wachovia. Likewise, it was reported that JP ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... are put on the back burner as investors speculate on which institution would be the next to fail - Goldman Sachs? Morgan Stanley? AIG? The Fed may well need to lower interest rates whether it wants to or not. The US economy is slowing fast and the escalating ...

BGI adds two more ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... appointed Deborah Fuhr as global head of ETF research and implementation strategy. Before joining BGI, Fuhr worked at Morgan Stanley for 11 years in the ETF market.

SEC blocks bank short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... the order. In addition, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Merrill Lynch & Co, Mizuho Financial Group, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are also covered in the emergency order. "The SEC's mission to protect investors, maintain ...

GMO expands Aus equities team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... participating in the management of GMO's Australian equity portfolios. Grehan was previously employed with Tolhurst, Morgan Stanley and JBWere.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US stocks fell on disappointing results from Morgan Stanley and FedEx Corp. At 0705 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was down 65 points at 5,370. Today, the Australian ...

ML appoints SWF head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... at Bear, Stearns & Co. His appointment is an indication of the growing influence of SWFs. In fact, last year a Morgan Stanley report forecasted SWF assets could expand to $19 trillion by 2014. John Thain, Merrill Lynch chair and chief executive, said ...