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JPMorgan buys DME stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
JPMorgan joins a number of global financial institutions and energy firms as an equity stakeholder in the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME). The global investment bank joins Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Vitol, Concord Energy, Casa Energy Trading and ...

Sentiment seesaw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
Up and down we go, where it stops we do not know. Wall Street's performance overnight highlights how tenuous financial market sentiment remains. The sentiment seesaw became obvious as the Dow Jones industrial index went from a 4.4 per cent loss to a ...

ESG buck stops with super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
Better and broader environmental, social and governance (ESG) research will occur when the major players high on the 'supply chain' such as super funds demand it, according to John Coombe, JANA executive director. Speaking at the Responsible Investment ...

Market wrap - midday

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market was in positive territory at noon across all sectors except materials, which is suffering from weaker commodity prices. At 1207 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 28.5 points, or 0.58 per cent, at 4,952, while the broader ...

Investment titans now governed by Fed

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
Two of the world's investment banking giants Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have morphed into bank holding companies - a historic move to avert a disastrous turn similar to Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. Goldman Sachs announced in a statement yesterday ...

CalPERS halts lending to big four

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The $274 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has temporarily stopped the lending of troubled Wachovia, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and State Street shares. Anne Stausboll, interim chief investment officer of CalPERS ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
'This is a once in a half century, probably once in a century type of event.' (Alan Greenspan). Are we headed for a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s? This might sound too alarmist but indeed, quite a possibility as one giant US financial ...

Fitzpatrick vacates VFMC chair

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Mike Fitzpatrick, chairman of the $37 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation, is ending his three year term in January next year. In a media statement released yesterday, VFMC confirmed that Fitzpatrick had advised the fund's board that he will ...

Macquarie hires ex-GSBJW COO

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
Macquarie Funds Group appointed has appointed Irene Deutsch, ex chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs JB Were's securities division, to Australian head of retail distribution in its retail structured products division. Deutsch re-joined Macquarie ...

VFMC appoints ex-Goldman Sachs MD

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
The $37 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has appointed Justin Pascoe, former managing director of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's quantitative investment strategies team in Hong Kong, as the fund's new chief investment officer. ...