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No complaints for HK regulator

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
Regulators worldwide have been criticised for failing to deal appropriately to the outcomes of the global financial crisis but the Hong Kong securities and futures regulator has received an overall thumbs up from market participants. The Neilson Company ...

AIST alerts regulator on misleading campaign against super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
... there's something going on that is short-term, super gets dragged into it... we've just come out of the global financial crisis and superannuation funds are on track to recovery. We don't need further instability," she said. Other investment associations ...

Turning Bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... that eagerly awaited double dip. If this fear becomes entrenched at this point in time, it would make the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 look like a walk in the park. There were far greater fiscal and monetary options back then. This time policy interest ...

Mercer wins Investec mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... consulting business, said demand for comprehensive global research capabilities is on the rise. "Following the global financial crisis (GFC) we have seen an increasing trend for private banks to seek comprehensive, unbiased and forward-looking manager ...

PIMCO favours Latin American and Asian bonds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... head of global wealth management at PIMCO Australia, said Latin America and Asian countries, prior to the global financial crisis, built-up sovereign reserves and aren't dealing with a debt crisis in the same magnitude as Europe. "Emerging markets and ...

LUCRF rolls out financial advice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
... structure," Sword said in a statement. "One of the driving forces behind this decision was that during the global financial crisis, we noticed some members made changes to their investments and looked to us for financial advice." LUCRF Super is offering ...

Global hedge fund market shows signs of life

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
Hedge fund start-ups are attracting money from large institutional investors after the global financial crisis pushed many small to mid-tier hedge funds out of the market. Ben Funk, managing director and head of research at Liongate Capital Management ...

Rambo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... Australia and the battering the Australian dollar took during the Asian financial crisis and lately, the global financial crisis. The Australian economy dodged an economic recession in both episodes because it allowed the currency, instead of the economy ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... currency? Because of its debt. Because of its deficit. What happened was that everyone got dirtied by the global financial crisis. Borrowing from Pimco's Paul McCulley and Mohamed El-Erian, America may be the "cleanest dirty shirt" in the closet. What ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... threatened to become a full-blown Global Sovereign Crisis. De ja vu. Just like a movie re-run at the height of Global Financial Crisis -- when anything that could go wrong did - financial markets are again subscribing to Murphy's Law. After a collective ...