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Sign Say on Pay: CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... Waddell & Reed, Northern Trust, BB & T, Capital One Financial, American Express, PNC Financial Services, SunTrust, Fifth Third Bancorp, Comerica, KeyCorp, and Regions Financial. "We applaud Goldman Sachs, State Street and Bank of New York Mellon for ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... productivity growth targets and the removal of the compulsory retirement age. Yesterday Treasurer Wayne Swan released the third Intergenerational Report showcasing how the ageing population will drive up health costs and age pension costs, lower taxation ...

No easy gains in Indian equities: Pereira

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... last year, said one fund manager. John Pereira, managing director at India Equities Fund, said the Indian market posted the third strongest market in the world behind Russia and Brazil with the Sensex Index returning 80 per cent for the year. "The market ...

Macquarie in talks with Charter Hall

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... could be that Charter Hall is looking to buy out parts of Macquarie's real estate platform, or all of it. "And there's the third angle... that this could be a reverse takeover, [and] Charter Hall buys into the Macquarie platform - giving it a tremendous ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... personal spending - is slowing. Personal consumption slowed to 2.0 per cent in the fourth quarter from 2.8 per cent in the third. Growth would not be unsustainable. There were a lot more other reasons bears found when they dissected the US National Accounts. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... spending to replenish inventories. The Commerce Department figures showed growth accelerated from the 2.2 per cent pace in the third quarter, when the economy expanded for the first time after four quarters of contraction and the worst recession in decades. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... after the Conference Board said its index of consumer confidence rose to 55.9 in January from 53.6 in December. It was the third straight increase and its highest level in more than a year. The Dow Jones index was also boosted by a rise in insurer Travelers ...

TAAM to add two more clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... consensus view that global emerging markets are a relatively better place to be invested," he said. "We think we are only a third to the way through that circular change, it would be our view that the weighting of global emerging markets and Asia continue ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... respective GDP, putting more pressure on their governments to pull their monetary and fiscal levers wisely. Bridges said the third threat on investor wealth is that inflation-linked bonds (the usual remedy against inflation) have become expensive as ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... Disappointment over banks earnings results also played a part. Bank of America reported a bigger than expected loss for the third quarter while JP Morgan and Citigroup warned about more loan losses. Morgan Stanley's trading revenue fell. But the same ...