Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 471 - 480 of 537 results for "Angel"

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
If you can't beat 'em, regulate 'em... again. The Germans must have been standing too close to the euro kitchen that they could no longer bear the heat. After all, them Deutsche -- more than any other Eurozone-member nation -- have much at stake and ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... council member Axel Weber warning that there is a threat of "grave contagion effects." But I think OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria is more on the ball on this one when he said last week that, "It's not a question of the danger of contagion; contagion ...

INGIM builds distribution from ground up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
ING Investment Management (INGIM) is in the market for more staff, including BDMs, as it rolls out an ambitious wholesale distribution strategy to be led by former Genesys deputy head Jim McKay. McKay's appointment was announced today, less than a week ...

Contagion has already happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... higher now that a bigger Eurozone member had been downgraded? Told you it's already a "known known." OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria put this so very nicely, "It's not a question of the danger of contagion; contagion has already happened." Speaking ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Here we go again! The rough and tumble of Wall Street on display as investors knee-jerkingly reacts to what is -- in the words of Donald Rumsfeld - a "known known." The problem that just won't go away; like an irritating fly in the midst of an Australian ...

America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
While Eyjafjallajokull continues to spew ash, there may be a heavier fall-out when Goldman Sach's volcano explodes. Wall Street rose last night as companies reported better than expected earnings results. And guess which one stood out? Goldman Sachs! ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
Aren't you getting tired of this? Sick and tired of how Greek will be saved one day and left in ruins the next? It's come to such a confused state that the flip-flopping of news reports gives substance to the phrase, "it's all Greek to me!" Flip. Greek ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Jeremy Cooper, head of the Super System Review, estimates super funds can save up to $1 billion in costs by doing little things that add up to mean a lot. Speaking at the Conference of Major Super Funds (CSMF) yesterday, Cooper detailed the 'super stream' ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
"The beat goes on...la de da de da." (Cher) The beat of mixed data that is, but Wall Street is seeing the silver lining in the dark clouds this time. First stop and the most important for the US economy - the consumer. Their personal income rose by ...

New board directors for HESTA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
Australia's biggest industry super fund for health and community services has appointed three new directors to its board. HESTA Super Fund's new appointees are Maree O'Halloran, a lawyer and director of NSW's Welfare Rights Centre; Prue Power, executive ...