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Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... State Department, where he served as a US diplomat in Beijing and Taipei. Prior to that, he held posts at BAE Systems and Lehman Brothers. Also based in Edinburgh, Wolf will report to chief economist Jeremy Lawson. Standard Life Investments' head of ...

Instos too slow to make investment decisions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... executive international and head of global clients Anthony Fasso said: "In what is still a tepid recovery from the post-Lehman crisis, many fund managers are eager to reduce risk especially as their plans approach fully-funded status. "This has led them ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... the events of December 1878 effectually upset this complacent view of things. The crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers has been similarly important for our Inquiry. In his quote, George Rae was referring to the impact on the UK of the ...

S&P denied appeal over landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... continue their pursuit of a damages claim against S&P relating to complex derivative products rated AAA by S&P and sold by Lehman Brothers in Australia in the lead up to the GFC. The litigation process has been funded and actioned by Bentham IMF. S&P ...

AMP targets Asian investors with new UCITS funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... strategy as AMP Capital's existing listed infrastructure and real estate funds, via the UCITS platform. "Since the post-Lehman shock, Asian investors have been interested in strategies that provide sustainable income and capital growth, which both real ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... was going to continue going good. But it didn't. The VIX soared to a reading of 80.86 in November 2008 -- a month after Lehman Bros collapsed and as the Great Recession bit -- dropped to 16.62 by early 2010 aided by the Fed's QE1. The Grexit fears of ...

Court rules against S&P in Lehmann Brothers class action

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... Standard & Poor's has cleared the way for Councils, church groups and charities to continue a damage claim relating to Lehman Brothers complex products. Church groups, charities and 91 Councils in Australia launched a class action against S&P's decision ...

There's the good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014

In praise of the gloom and doomers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... Treasuries that act as collateral would be very difficult to exchange and people will simply step back. It will be like Lehman, but more unpredictable." And then there's Barry Ritholtz -- financial journalist and now founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management ...