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Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... Bloomberg reports that homebuyers are engaging in what real estate professionals call "buy and bail." Americans are "buying" houses before they "bail" on their existing mortgages -- which would surely ruin their credit ratings. This is considered fraudulent ...

Trustees address 'young' elephant in the room

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... very hard to engage the 20s and the 30-somethings because super savings aren't on top of their priority list. "They've got houses and cars to think about," she said. Solution? Just don't mention the 'R' word: retirement. "They're not thinking about retirement ...

Staff departures prompt rating changes

S&P REPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
Fewer fund managers left their investment houses during the second quarter of the year but those who did were more far important than those who left three months earlier. The Standard & Poor's Musical Chairs: Fund Managers on the Move report found 11 ...

Aubrey opens local fund

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... the fund is attracting strong interest from multi-manager funds and dealer groups. "We have begun working with research houses and expect to receive the first Australian rating later this year," said Burgess. Aubrey was founded in 2006 by staff from ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... spending picks up, sales pick up. More profits, more investments, more... And then employed Americans will think of buying houses again.

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... time, advanced countries must send a clear message that as our stimulus plans expire, we will focus on getting our fiscal houses in order." In the end, the G-20 agreed to meet halfway by "Following through on fiscal stimulus and communicating growth ...

Basis Capital lesson far from over

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... example, the investments within Basis were not as easy to understand as they were marketed to be and portrayed by the research houses. "That has made us more cynical and jaded - we want to see an investment that is transparent and easier to understand ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... joint release by the US Census Bureau and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development: "Sales of new single-family houses in May 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. ...

Portfolio manager movement accelerates

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
The number of fund managers switching investment houses doubled in the last six months, S&P reported. Standard & Poor's found 15 senior portfolio management professionals, representing 320 years of collective experience, left their firms in the first ...

ETCs close to platform launch

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... platforms. "We're starting to see more platforms do more due diligence on our products," he said. "There's several research houses that feed into [different investment platforms]. It'll probably be around a month and a half before things start moving." ...