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Asia Pac property assets draw mandate appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
LaSalle Investment Management, one of the biggest names in property management in Asia, gives Australian institutional investors food for thought on the opportunities in the region. Jeff Jacobson, global chief executive of the $40 billion fund manager ...

Tax breaks no enough: seniors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... retirement age, argues an industry body. Michael O'Neill, chief executive at National Seniors, welcomed head of Treasury, Ken Henry's, proposal for tax concessions to encourage older workers to remain in the workforce. However, he warned that a more ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US and European stocks and commodity prices gained overnight. At 0650 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 33 points higher at 4,876. In economics news ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

The I word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Yes, it's back - the 'I' word that is. With the many letters being thrown around to describe the global recovery these days, you must be wondering what this letter 'I' stands for. 'I' stands for inflation. The fear of its return spooked Wall Street ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

Ord Minnett appoints head of research

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
Ord Minnett has appointed Stephen Scott to the position of head of research at Ord Minnett. Scott will be responsible for running both the investment strategy team and Ord Minnett's team of specialist research analysts covering Australian equities. ...

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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... capital to help fund the repayment. Bank of America said it expected the move would help it recruit a successor to the retiring Ken Lewis. Investors are seeing the bank's move as a sign of its increasing strength and that economic conditions are improving. ...