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RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... shrink by 2.05 per cent in 2009 - almost 10 times the contraction forecast for Australia. Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Alan Bollard is a little bit more optimistic and expects the economy to grow in the final three months of this year. However ...

Platform money flows back into markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... balanced and growth options because they're doing that job of ensuring their clients remain invested," he said. Meanwhile, Alan Kenny, general manager, product and investment services at Colonial First State, also said money is starting to flow back ...

Dixon action on Premium gains momentum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
Alan Dixon, Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services chief executive, said the firm's call to change how Premium Investors operates has the support of many of the listed investment company's shareholders. The financial planning firm requested a general ...

UK DB plans must shape up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... monitoring, the ability to lock in market gains, an integrated liability hedging strategy and equity market downside risk measures. Alan Baker, chief operating officer of the service, said the solution was developed for the UK defined benefit market ...

US church pension ramps up Asia-Pac presence

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... Church Pension Fund has been investing in Asian real estate funds since 2004 and in Asian private equity funds since 2005. Alan Snoddy, a senior vice president responsible for the real estate portfolio of the pension fund, said two years ago that he ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... creditors' meeting in Melbourne, while Lehman Bros Australia holds a creditors' meeting in Sydney. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce will address a Committee for Economic Development of Australia function. The Global Proxy-Melbourne Institute will launch ...

S&P puts 12 CFS funds 'on hold'

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... portfolio management responsibilities for the Australian Share Fund from head of equities Marcus Fanning. Senior analyst Alan Martin will meanwhile be moving across to the small-caps team, but will maintain his large-cap responsibilities for the resources ...

Ignore history at your peril

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... - and if this trend remains, their lack of wisdom will only contribute to future financial crisis, said a global expert. Alan McFarlane, chief executive of Edinburgh-based Walter Scott & Partners and a speaker at yesterday's Securitor conference in Darwin ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... start saw the benchmark NZSX-50 index up 27.6 points soon after opening, following gains in the US and Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard's unusual step of issuing a statement expressing his concern at a recent rise in long-term wholesale interest rates. ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... cycle of too big to fail institutions' losses covered up by taxpayers' money end? And how? Temporary nationalisation maybe? Alan Greenspan seems to think so. But after thinking about it, the 'bad bank' idea - proposed and later dismissed - could be more ...