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Frontier and JANA join forces to address fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... for fee discussions, which considers both the fund manager and investor's needs. "I have no doubt these principles will spark some different views and we are open to further input from all sides of the industry. The fee debate is an important one and ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Whac-a-mole 2.0! Remember whac-a-mole 1.0 when the global financial crisis was just starting? It was then, that the air was ripe with speculation as to which financial institution's head - Bear Sterns, Fannie/Freddie, AIG - the US Fed/Treasury tandem ...

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... Spanish CDS also rose to record highs. Could this be November 2009 redux when debt problems first and Dubai and then Greece spark another wave of pessimism in the financial markets? I think not. The European sovereign debt issue had been/is being dealt ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... strengthened the recovery. Anything less than this would take America back to square one, disappoint the financial markets and spark a wave of sell orders of risk assets. And this will do nobody no good. Bring on QE2.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... expectations of a 20,000 increase in total employment. CMC Markets head of trading James Foulsham said the jobs data helped spark what had been a subdued start to the trading day. "It was a bit of a lifeless start, but as soon as the numbers came out ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
We've been told that the US recession officially died 15 months ago and Wall Street, it seems, is no longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Three cheers for September! Hip, hip! Where's the September curse everybody and his dog were warning about at the onset of the seventh moon of the year? Thirteen days into this "most awful month" for stocks and so far Wall Street has advanced in eight ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... Qrxpharma Ltd, and Challenger Financial Services Group Ltd. Half year results are expected from Caltex Australia Ltd and Spark Infrastructure Group Ltd. Westpac Banking Corporation issues its August trading update. On Friday, the Australian stock market ...

452 Capital mandates at risk

RUTH LIEW AND JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
The impending departure of three senior executives from boutique fund manager 452 Capital sent shockwaves through the investment community late yesterday, with super funds heavily exposed to the manager reconsidering their investment mandates. In a ...

Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
Look ma, I passed the test! Hip, hip... Eighty-four European banks received their certificate of financial health from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) over the weekend. They'll survive a recession and a sovereign debt crisis if ...