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Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... November 2008. In just five days of trading, the S&P 500 lost 17.4% that time...and continued to do so before bottoming in March of the following year. Now that was Lehman, Mr. El-Arian. On both occasions, both sides of the political divide were forced ...

Partnership gives local access to global hedge fund giant

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... follows Permal's acquisition of BNPP IP's fund of hedge funds business, Fauchier Partners, rebranded 'Jubilee Advisers', in March of this year. Permal, which is owned by Legg Mason, is one of the largest alternatives asset managers in the world with ...

New Treasurer Bowen takes control of financial services and super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... support for Kevin Rudd in last week's leadership ballot. Chris Bowen was minister for immigration and citizenship until March of this year, when he went to the backbenches after publicly supporting Kevin Rudd in a leadership spill. Shadow Minister for ...

AQUA II poses a challenge to wraps

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... said, "This is a big step forward from wet signature regulations." But how do the big platforms feel about the AMFS? In March of 2012, Tria Investment Partners published a white paper on the AMFS, in which they said, "Some large established players have ...

Emerging market bubbles present opportunity: Tyndall

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... managers can adjust their own exposure to the direct fund. In spite of short-term difficulties, Marais says that the onward march of emerging markets is inevitable and that you only have to look at what is being reported in the news to understand. "Back ...

Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... Eurozone bonds at an informal meeting of EU leaders tomorrow night. We heard this before didn't we? Late last year and in March of this one. Good idea if they can get Germany and the rest of the 16 other members to agree. Reports that the finance ministers ...

IOOF books $225m net inflows, simplifies ops

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... and that the platform actually had a higher Funds Under Administration at December 2009 than it did at acquisition in March of that year. Chris Kelaher, the group's managing director, told investors in a results presentation this morning that following ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... all gloom and doom heading up to this day. "We're stuff!" was the catch cry of that time. From the start of 2009 to 9 March of the same year, the S&P 500 dropped by 25.1 per cent, the Dow closed 25.4 per cent lower and the Nasdaq lost 19.6 per cent. ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... all gloom and doom heading up to this day. "We're stuff!" was the catch cry of that time. From the start of 2009 to 9 March of the same year, the S&P 500 dropped by 25.1 per cent, the Dow closed 25.4 per cent lower and the Nasdaq lost 19.6 per cent. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... clues on the nation's economic momentum coming out of recession. Some analysts are concerned that the huge rally since March of some 60 per cent for the broad market has been the result of easy money from the Federal Reserve's near-zero interest rates. ...