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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... highest level since the collapse of Wall Street banking giant Lehman Brothers heralded the start of the global financial crisis. Seoul was flat, edging up 1.61 points to 2,006.01, while Hong Kong added 1.41 per cent, or 320.51 points, to 23,091.95. Shanghai ...

EM corp bonds better than US: CFSGAM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... and more favourable demographic trends." She adds that the speed of the transformation, helped by the global financial crisis and escalating sovereign debt problems, has taken many investors by surprise. "A decade ago no one would have believed Mexico ...

Local appetite for hedge funds outstrips other markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... funds under management, at the time this was one of the largest hedge funds in the world. He said that the global financial crisis had seen the appetite for hedge funds fall in the more traditional markets, with Europe in particular becoming nervous ...

GSAM offers EM debt to retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... developed markets has narrowed, with emerging markets growing and some developed markets being affected by the global financial crisis. "Today, even though developed economies only account for about 60 per cent of global growth, they account for almost ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... Traditional quantitative models have been popular since the 1980s but they came under fire following the global financial crisis in which a liquidity crunch led to dramatic underperformance. However, PineBridge global head of equities Robin Thorn said ...

IOOF posts $33.2m profit

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... associated with the merger to be approximately $10 million per year starting from fiscal 2014. "Since the global financial crisis began impacting earnings for financial services businesses worldwide, IOOF has been strategically adding to its business ...

ORIX acquires 90% of Robeco from Rabobank

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... its client service relations. The transaction reflects ORIX's views on the financial market after the global financial crisis. The Japanese group is pursuing now a business model that combines finance with related services in a strategy called "Finance ...

Global listed property outperforms global equities by 8.6%

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... delivered returns in excess of 25% over the year - having rebounded from the lows experienced during the global financial crisis - most managers underperformed their respective benchmark indices over the past year, the report noted. According to the ...

Still pent-up demand as ETFs celebrate record year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... market is in Europe and the US to understand the potential for growth in Australia. He added that the global financial crisis acted as a wind break to wider uptake of the instruments. "ETFs were gaining a lot of traction before the GFC but Australia ...

Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... elections. But major central banks around the world had been busy bodies expanding their money supply since the global financial crisis. Why do you think they're doing that? Yep, to put more liquidity in the system and bring down borrowing costs so people ...