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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. ...

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
Data released overnight shows a continued decline the US housing market, price pressures remain and its financial sector problems have not gone away. US housing starts fell by 11 percent to an annualised 965,000 units in July -- the lowest level since ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to slide today after Wall Street finished lower after a volatile day's trade. At 0743 AEST, the Sydney Futures Exchange's September share price index futures contract was 33 points down to 4,995. Releases today ...

APFC appoints $782m infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The $38.8 billion 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 ...

SEC blocks bank short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
US based Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking extreme action against wild 'naked' short selling, issuing an emergency order that prevents the practice across a number of commercial and investment bank stocks. The order means anyone taking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower today after European equities and industrial metals fell on Friday. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract fell 17 points to 5,057. In economic ...