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Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... assault on the British pound, and the 1997 unraveling of Asia's financial markets," they said. The long term trends are so rock solid that the latest crisis has probably just sped up the changes we have begun to accept. For example, McKinsey said, we ...

Fear brings opportunity for the wise

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... investors," noted the report. Wise-owl found market falls of more than 20 per cent are often an indication the market is close to rock bottom. Recent history suggests that gradual bear markets, or even when the markets fall rapidly, the bulk of stock ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... close this week on a report that the British government has drafted a plan to nationalise troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock if it fails to strike a deal with private buyers. The Nikkei average closed up 0.83 per cent or 128.69 points at 15,608.88. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... per cent to end a two-day winning run as fears over credit-related losses besieged banking stocks, but troubled Northern Rock rose as its future appeared more secure. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,180.5 points, down 81.6. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
It will take China some ten to twelve years to match the size of Australia's $1.3 trillion plus funds management industry but once it does, China's pension industry will "rocket past ours", according to Peter Promnitz, head of Asia Pacific for Mercer ...

SSgA restructures global asset team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) has reorganised its global asset management team following the underperformance of its fixed income businesses. Mark Marinella has been promoted to chief investment officer of global fixed income following the departure ...

Killer inflation - three fatalities

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
While the RBA flags the dangers of growing consumer spending on our rising inflation, China's rocketing inflation and consumer demand have proved to be a killer. Literally. Australia's employment growth was softer than expected in October, however Westpac's ...

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
Strong small cap performance in the last three years has dragged down a large cap manager's performance relative to the index, according to data from research software provider Inalytics. The discovery came when a UK pension fund client asked Inalytics ...

SSgA launches Global Total Equity Returns in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
Harnessing investor appetite for products focusing on risk management, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is launching their Global Equity Total Return product into the Australian market. Arlene Rockefeller, CFA and senior managing director of global ...

Frontier finds gold in sub-prime muck

... industry to re-assess credit ratings, lending standards and practices, particularly after UK finance institution Northern Rock got into trouble. "The ratings system is really up for some solid review...there will be some solid investigation now, especially ...