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Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
"War is over, if you want it, want is over now" (John Lennon) Wall Street have resumed its upward trek after tripping some weeks back as number crunchers lowered company profit expectations and the dumping of warm bodies on the unemployment heap continued ...

Banks to tap ATMs for advertising

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Australian bank ATMs could soon be used not just to take cash out but for promos and advertising too, according to an ATM advertising group that has done work for major British banks and is looking to open an office in Australia. i-design, a UK-based ...

Corporate governance needs national voice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
Asia Pacific investors need to develop an organisation at a national level to effectively manage corporate governance issues, according to a corporate governance expert. Jamie Allen, secretary general at the Asian Corporate Governance Association in ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring ...

Timbercorp growers favour consortium

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Timbercorp growers are welcoming talks with a recently formed consortium - TCGrowers - which is looking to buy the embattled agricultural group's forestry assets. According to an update yesterday on the TCGrowers website, the group had received very ...

Platypus calls for time out

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Platypus Capital Management is closing shop and liquidating two of its flagship products because the firm "is not at a viable size in the industry as it currently exists". According to an email by Chris Talbot, one of the partners of Platypus, the boutique ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
If it were not so serious, I would think that Wall Street's overnight fall was in commiseration to Michael's memorial. Have the green shoots withered and died and are now being buried alongside MJ? The S&P 500 fell by two 2 per cent, the Dow was off ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
Pengana's Asian Equities Long Short fund gained 22.5 per cent, net of fees, in the year to June against its benchmark's loss of 6.1 per cent - proof that even in the worst of times, fund managers that make the smart calls can deliver. Not many fund ...

Towers Perrin merges with Watson Wyatt

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Towers and Perrin and Watson Wyatt merged to form Towers Watson & Co, a $4.3 billion global employee benefits firm. As a result of the deal, John Haley, chief executive at Watson Wyatt, will serve as the new company's chief executive and Mark Mactas ...

Pinnacle appoints distribution director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
Pinnacle Investment Management has appointed Adam Bullpitt as associate director of distribution. Bullpitt joins the investment manager after working at Vanguard Investments as a business development manager for three years. During this time he worked ...