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Top mandate winners woo super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... implemented consultants. The Mandate Chaser report is published by Rainmaker Group, which provides information, market intelligence, research, publishing, events, communications and media groups in the financial services marketplace. Correction: An earlier ...

Season's Greetings from the Financial Standard team

... until that time, the website will remain active and readers will still have full access to the news archives and Intelligence Unit research and analysis. We thank you for your support and look forward to discussing the issues affecting the financial ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... be stronger and overvalued against the stronger emerging economies (mainly China and Asia). The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) updated the index for the latest exchange rates, but the outcome is more or less the same -- the US dollar remains ...

Investors shun social media, for now

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... in 10 looked to Wikinvest, Motley Fool, Facebook or Twitter for stock tips. However, many still get their market intelligence through more conventional methods, such as one-on-one and group company briefings, company websites, the ASX website, IRESS ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... December 2007 is officially "dead, buried and cremated". And guess what? This is what our prescient Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) accurately "guessed" exactly 14 months ago. Don't believe me? Read "Jumping at shadows no more", published ...

Overseas pensions shine in communications

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... UK retirement plan members aren't engaged with their retirement savings. Spence Johnson, an investment marketing intelligence firm, was hired to assist in the process and collected 90 defined contribution communications campaigns. This unearthed a number ...

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... his May investment outlook, Gross wrote that in recent years ratings agencies have displayed little "second grade intelligence" and/or "CQ (Common Sense Quotient)". "In addition, they have brazenly sold their reputations for unbiased judgment to the ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... worst of the worst that could happen. Last night's successful bond sale in Spain justifies the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) view that the European crisis is not as bad as the spin doctors would have you believe. The world's been through ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... his May investment outlook, Gross wrote that in recent years ratings agencies have displayed little "second grade intelligence" and/or "CQ (Common Sense Quotient)". "In addition, they have brazenly sold their reputations for unbiased judgment to the ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... for Johnnies-come-lately credit rating agencies to yell, "run!" But leave it to our team at the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU). As it stands, the equity market's behaviour to the recent rout confirms our view that investors are still at ...