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ACSI helps push News Corp negative vote to 35%

ALEX DUNNIN, CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... negative votes were so significant the board was forced to rely on the supporting votes of the Murdoch Family and Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. "This protest vote is a clear message from global investors that the current quality of corporate governance ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... GFC-related stress reliever (for the record, I don't think it is), it doesn't in any way whatsoever excuse the man's - any man's (prince or pauper) -- behaviour. It's an interesting human-interest story but not one that would inhibit the normal functioning ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... day. The London market now is closed for a four-day break, with an extra public holiday on Friday to mark the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The market reopens on Tuesday. HONG KONG - Asian stocks ended mixed on Thursday as dealers took ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
You are the definition of moral hazard! These words - delivered by Kentucky Republican Senator Jim Bunning at Ben Bernanke's Senate hearing on his nomination for a second term as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve - perhaps reflects the embodiment of ...

US fundie expands into Japanese pensions

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
US-based INTECH Investment Management LLC has been appointed by Nikko Asset Management as a sub-adviser to provide a customised international equities strategy to Japanese pension funds. INTECH will provide the firm's Kokusai Strategy which uses the ...

FinLit goes global

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
The world is catching the financial literacy bug with the launch of new programs now targeting the impoverished in the third world. Last month the Aflatoun global Campaign for Child Social and Financial Education was launched in Amsterdam by Princess ...

Markets shake rattle and roll

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... an interest rate hike. Sub-prime mashed the US markets again overnight. As the door closed on Citigroup's ex-CEO Chuck Prince, rumours proved true on the bank's expected additional write-downs which tallied to $11 billion. With worst fears realised ...

Sub-prime still has teeth

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... sub-prime assets. Less than a week after Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal walked the sub-prime plank, Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, is reported to be packing up his desk over mortgage backed debts that left the US's largest bank reeling. The rumour mill is ...

Basis Capital suspends yield fund

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
Local hedge fund manager Basis Capital yesterday suspended redemptions from its $1 billion Basis Yield Fund. The fund manager wrote to investors saying that disruption to the global structured credit market had created difficulties for the fund and ...

Emerging markets by numbers: BlackRock

BlackRock Australia tapped into the solid track record of the global BlackRock's Princeton-based quant team when the group launched an emerging markets enhanced fund locally that is modeled on the US version. The BlackRock Global Enhanced Emerging Markets ...