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State Super members hungry for advice

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... Scheme were satisfied with the fund's services, followed by the Police Superannuation Scheme (91 per cent) and State Authorities Superannuation Scheme (90 per cent). State Super is a pooled fund that covers the investment assets of the State Authorities ...

Instinet appoints deputy head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... experience across both specialist transition managers and sell side trading desks makes him one of the market's leading authorities with regards to portfolio implementation, and his appointment represents a key piece of our value proposition," said Graham ...

The perfect hedge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... long-term outlook for gold is positive, whether the global financial crisis makes a comeback or fiscal and monetary authorities succeed in coaxing growth to show up in their economies. The defensive qualities of the yellow metal will come back to the ...

Neuberger Berman buys Lehman Bros

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... completed later this year. Completion of the transaction is subject to conditions, including approvals by the regulatory authorities and the bankruptcy court. Terms were not disclosed. The professional services firm of Alvarez & Marsal is overseeing ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... long way from the abyss of despair, economic and financial market indicators have improved and fiscal and monetary authorities are here to ensure - by any means - that growth is restored. Investors waiting for more data confirming the global recovery ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... same period and more than three times the 2.5 per cent shrinkage in America's economy. Japanese monetary and fiscal authorities may have recently lifted their economic outlook for the economy, but Japan's economic situation remains dire. Japanese exports ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... dog has a vested interest in seeing the financial world become a better place again. Not least, fiscal and monetary authorities. They would not allow the trillions of dollars spent to revive the economic and financial systems go to waste. They will see ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... 9.4 per cent. Last night's fall on Wall Street should be taken as a positive in that it provides a reality check for authorities that it is too soon to remove the stimulus measures and concentrate on turning the emerging signs of economic stabilisation ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Have we? Haven't we? Left bottom that is. Or is the taxpayer's impatience to get their money back and authorities' over zealousness to erect new 'thou shall not' signs to police financial institutions taking us back to that dark place we left back in ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... inflation? I said "could" because there is still a likelihood that despite current popular clamour, fiscal and monetary authorities are very much aware of the policy mistakes that extended the Great Depression of the 1930s. The bulls will be spinning ...