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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
... 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, said they had put ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... Economic releases are put on the back burner as investors speculate on which institution would be the next to fail - Goldman Sachs? Morgan Stanley? AIG? The Fed may well need to lower interest rates whether it wants to or not. The US economy is slowing ...

Fitzpatrick vacates VFMC chair

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... early next year. Fitzpatrick's announcement comes just over a week after Justin Pascoe, ex- managing director of Goldman Sachs Asset Management's quantitative investment strategies team in Hong Kong, was appointed as VFMC's chief investment officer. ...

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
... $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. Pascoe ...

S&P rates AQE fund five stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
Standard & Poor's awarded Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management's (GSJBW) Australia Quantitative Equity Fund (AQE Fund) a four star rating. Set up in 2004, the long only fund combines quantitative and fundamental strategies based on six investment themes ...

The saga continues

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... that Lehman Brothers will post a $4 billion credit writedown - three times more than expectations. A report from Goldman Sachs added to the gloom. Goldman Sachs reported that American Insurance Group -- the largest US insurer - might be facing a 'downward ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
... ongoing impact of the credit crisis on the economy. Another drop in the price of oil helped placate some investors. Goldman Sachs Group fell after several analysts lowered recommendations and earnings estimates for the investment bank. The day's trading ...

APFC appoints $782m infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) has pumped $521 million and $261 million into two infrastructure funds by Goldman Sachs and Alinda Capital Partners. The APFC board poured the investments into the new Goldman Sachs Institutional Infrastructure ...