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Voya appoints head of emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... important component of this." BA1/4tikofer has had 18 years' experience investing in emerging markets. He was most recently with Union Bancaire Privee (UBP Investment Management) in Zurich where he served as head of emerging markets fixed income for ...

Billionaire makers: The cities growing the world's wealthiest

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... economic successes, other cities have changed dramatically such as Detroit or Moscow -which 60 years ago was under the Soviet Union." Spear's editor Josh Spero added: "London may have the most billionaires in the world today, but most of them aren't ...

Consumers ask banks to disclose brand ownership

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... advertise. The consumer survey was conducted by the Ehrenberg-Bass Marketing Institute on behalf of People's Choice Credit Union. The survey found some two-thirds of people thought multi-branding was used to trick customers about ownership, while only ...

Consumers have no loyalty to financial institutions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
The average Australian customer of each of the major banks deals with more than four institutions across their full range of financial services. This shows there is little loyalty towards any one institution, Roy Morgan has concluded. Of the ten major ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... at 6.8 percent of GDP at the height of the Reagan defense buildup. But, beginning even before the breakup of the Soviet Union it began a decline, reaching below 6 percent in 1990, below 4 percent in 1996 and bottoming out at 3.5 percent of GDP in 2001 ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... enclave about the size of Rhode Island," according to Bloomberg. According to reports fighting started after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, ceased fire in 1994 with bouts of intermittent violence since then. So what? So what is it involves Putin ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... Australian share market is slightly lower, as investors digest the impact of Argentina's debt default and US and European Union sanctions against Russia. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the market was relatively quiet as it tried to balance out ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... 40 tumbled 1.22 per cent to 4,312.3 points. Energy companies led the charge lower, after the United States and European Union agreed to expand restrictions against Moscow, targeting the Russian energy, defence and finance sectors. Russian markets, however ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Reports that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following losses on Wall Street after the United States and the European Union broadened sanctions on Russia, overshadowing US economic data and earnings reports. At 0808 AEST on Wednesday, the September ...