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Talkin' bout my generation

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... Westpoint and Trio. "If we collaborate and address these issues, we will be in a good space as a profession and we can hold our heads high," said Klipin.

Lloyds Bank CM snaps up two former UBS FX heads

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets has expanded its global foreign exchange business, hiring two former UBS investment bank foreign exchange specialists. Paul Bernasconi and Nathan Pederson have joined, respectively, in the newly created roles of director ...

Heads roll at Nomura

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
The chief executive officer and chief operating officer of ailing Japanese investment bank Nomura will step down to take responsibility for an insider trading scandal. Kenichi Watanabe, Nomura's chief executive, and Takumi Shibata, its chief operating ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... be able to pay back its debt," said Christensen. Understanding regional politics and fiscal health would give investors a heads up if their investments were caught up in the fall out from regional defaults. "It was reported this week that Sicily has ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... years ago. Is there a chance that Dr. Doom's latest prediction will come good this time? Of course, it has. He's turned up heads while calling tails so many times that the law of probability would eventually catch up. But that's if you expect fiscal ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... by only 80,000 in June versus expectations for a gain of 100K. Uglier, net revisions for April and May showed 1,000 less heads employed than earlier estimated. Ugliest, employment growth in the last four months is far below the 250K needed to bring down ...

Austock bid on ice

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... Management business. "There is no clarification or previous disclosure about whether Austock has already entered into a Heads of Agreement, due diligence or other arrangement with Folkestone," said the announcement. "If Austock is entering into any specific ...

Good one day, no good the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... widely expected and isn't it a boost for the healthcare sector? Third time lucky. Weekly jobless claims dropped by 6,000 heads last week to 386,000. Not good, either. It missed expectations by a mere thousand heads. It's not statistically significant. ...

Borland heads to CS Singapore

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
Karla Borland has been appointed as head of mutual funds & ETFs Asia for Credit Suisse Singapore following the appointment of Joost Bilkes to relationship manager at the Taiwanese desk in the same ofice. Lars Kalbreier, spokesperson for Credit Suisse ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... to buy longer-term Treasuries -- expiry from the end of this month to the end of this year. And then they'll see. Talking heads blamed the Fed's lowered growth and raised unemployment forecasts for Wall Street's stumble. Seems like the denizens of Wall ...