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HSBC appoints Australia CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009

Plus Capital eyes offshore managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... currently in talks with three offshore managers and wants to geographically diversify. "In international equities all the big houses are already here and it's hard to say we've got someone that no-ones heard of, whereas in the alternatives space we believe ...

Seeking equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... housing starts plunged 13 per cent in April to 458,000 units - the lowest since records began in 1950. Permits to build houses - a leading indicator of housing - also dropped to a record low of 494,000 during the month. This is exactly what I referred ...

Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... adjust to a post-bull market lifestyle. In the past, consumers "traded up", buying luxury goods, expensive cars and bigger houses. In a recession, the trend reverses and consumers start trading down, cutting down expenses and "retrenching to their own ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... Hotels & Resorts soared 17 per cent and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide jumped 11 per cent. Americans may not be buying houses but they sure are still buying iPhones and iPods - just ask Apple which doubled the sale of these items. Perhaps they are ...

Wealth Within joins IMA race

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... service a limited number of IMA clients, usually around 100," said Owens. "Indeed most IMAs are powered by large investment houses or firms that are big enough to support a larger number thereby providing the service at a lower cost and with more bells ...

China caps executive pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... companies but industrial giants and including their significant interests in service provider companies such as brokerage houses. Nineteen SOEs are listed in the 2008 Fortune 500. The salary caps will be even tighter for executives at companies which ...

AMPFP restructures research team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... research team - including the replacement to former research manager Jerome Bodisco - and is in talks with five research houses as part of a fundamental review of its products research strategy. Brendan Irwin, who previously worked at St. George's private ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... January's reading of 309,000 sales was revised up to 322,000. This is another good omen. And while the median sale price of new houses fell to US$200,900 in the month from US$206,800 in January, it should stabilize going forward as the trend in house ...

Doors open for new ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... firm that looks at the investment merits of ETFs, said the potential sale could be a window of opportunity for investment houses that previously had little or no presence in the market. "The name of the game in this low-margin business is gathering assets ...