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Fidelity's Taylor kicks-off scholarship

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Finance. The Masters in Finance at the London Business School was recently rated the top course of its kind by the Financial Times newspaper for the second year in a row. Taylor will be participating in Fidelity's financial adviser road show next wee ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... moderate to severe inflation..." While we're at it, we might want to include Ruchir Sharma's opinion piece in the Financial Times arguing that QE drives greater increases in commodity prices than they do stocks - and higher commodity costs (like food ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... less strict the bailout conditions would be) but is expected to formally request a bailout next month while the Financial Times reports that senior Italian officials warned that Italy could be forced to seek one by yearend. While the austerity for OMT ...

Soros family office buys into Man United

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... through his family office investment arm, Quantum Partners. News of the purchase surfaced yesterday after the Financial Times cited a filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Soros now owns more than three million shares in the team ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... it wants. And recently history shows that when the Fed QEs, commodities run alongside equities. No thanks. The Financial Times reports that corn and soyabeans have now surpassed the "the peaks of the 2007-08 crisis that sparked food riots in more than ...

Dutch pension fund files against GSAM

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... The coverage ratio for Pensioenfonds Vervoer has hovered just below 100% for most of the year, according to a Financial Times report, although a decision from the Dutch government on Thursday to allow funds to use higher interest rates for long term ...

Instreet launches new structured product

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... delivering quarterly fixed income payments at 11% a year. Instreet managing director, George Lucas said that the Financial Times reported recently about the growth in popularity of structured products in the independent financial advice sector following ...

Problem solved, not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... Next to nothing will go directly to help the Greek economy. And if you think that's bad, you haven't read the Financial Times yet. It obtained a "strictly confidential 10-page debt sustainability analysis", distributed to euro zone officials last week. ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... would be difficult to enforce sanctions without further damaging Greece's economy that is already in ruins. A Financial Times report affirms my musing. According to FT, "Hardline officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Finland are increasingly urging ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... by the chimney with care, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there." Reports, rumours, gossips, leaks. The Financial Times reports that Europe plans to create a bigger bazooka - nay, two bazookas to be exact. FT writes that Eurozone authorities ...