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Investors hang on to managed futures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... see in the market place - you can see stock indices starting to settle down, you've seen oil do the same thing, and currencies stabalise. "They're the kind of situations where the managed futures program won't perform as well as other market environments," ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... PPIP, TARP, TALF - is a decline in another, the USD. The US dollar fell to a near five-month low against most major currencies overnight. Improving eco-finance conditions and increased risk appetite lessened the demand for the safety of the mighty dollar ...

Rothfield heads ML economics

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... Exchange group, formulating the company's view on the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian economies, interest rates and currencies. Rothfield was also a part of the team that developed and communicated the company's global macroeconomic and foreign ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... major central banks have pledged to keep policy easy for as long as it takes. It jumped the gun back then. Today, most currencies are on floating exchange rates; then, they were fixed - prompting central banks to raise interest rates to defend their ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... crisis. Now America's economic problems are also being shipped abroad. The flipside is that other nations will find their currencies appreciating sharply against the US dollar. Ergo, 'Not Made in America' goods, services and assets will be more expensive. ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... the biggest fall since 1962. But wait. Look at the US dollar exchange rate. It too has tumbled against other major currencies overnight. The greenback depreciated by as much as 3.6 per cent against the euro, 2.4 percent versus the yen, 4.5 per cent against ...

Planners tune in to ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... he said. In the US, where hundreds of ETFs abound, investors are able to access products that they can use to hedge currencies, short the market and fixed interest among others, he said. "The good news for fee-based advisers and their clients is that ...

GSJBW appoints co-CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... joined Goldman Sachs in 1998 based in Hong Kong and London where he held a number of senior roles in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) business. He then returned to Australia in 2001 and played an integral role in the merger to form ...

The Cambridge Strategy appoints MD

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... Cambridge Strategy has appointed Bob Colehan as managing director-portfolio management. Colehan will be responsible for G10 currencies. The Cambridge Strategy said this appointment acknowledges the critical importance of these currencies in the Australian ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... interpretation of economic reports, government announcements and central bank decisions determined entry and exit into equities, currencies, bonds and commodities - and this was changing by the day. Wall Street fell after the US Federal Reserve brought ...