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MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... return a balanced budget by the year ending June 30, 2021". Moody's remains doubtful over the government's revised forecasts. Fitch Ratings has no problems whatsoever saying it's still consistent with its AAA rating. Go ahead take their ratings as gospel ...

Where's the Brexit-induced recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
UK credit rating The Brexit fallout continues. Credit-rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings have downgraded the United Kingdom's sovereign credit rating. Standard & Poor's lowered the UK's credit rating by two notches, from 'AAA' to 'AA' ...

Britons vote 'Adieu EU'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016

AMP expands US credit research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... more than a decade of experience covering consumer sectors. She was previously a senior director of corporate finance at Fitch Ratings. Prior to that she worked at Bain Capital Partners as finance manager and at Brinson Partners as director of equity ...

Over-reliant bank lending slows OECD economic growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... the structure of finance can lead to improvements in both economic and social well-being," Mann said. Earlier this week Fitch Ratings said a continued slowdown and rebalancing in China, high corporate and household leverage in several economies, and ...

CBA awards $200m mandate to London manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
Commonwealth Bank has awarded a $200 million global equity mandate to a London-based fund manager. Ardevora Asset Management is an equity specialist with US$1.5 billion in assets under management that runs four equity strategies: global long-only, global ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... stock market had, no doubt, been boosted by the upgrade to its credit ratings by the three major credit ratings agencies -- Fitch Ratings (27 March), Standard & Poor's (3 May) and Moody's (3 October) - last year to investment grade. It's gonna get even ...

New EM bond rater proposes fresh approach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... told the Malaysian StarBiz news service that he didn't see ARC competing directly with the big three of Standard & Poor's, Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investor Services because ARC not being US-centric means it could provide a differentiated service. He ...

Roast Turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... speculative grade") by Standard & Poor's, BAA3 ("subject to moderate credit risk") by Moody's and BBB- ("good credit quality") by Fitch. I bet many would disagree with me on this but I have always admired then PM Mahathir Mohammad's methods in addressing ...