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NY firm defrauds billion dollar CDOs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... director of the SEC's New York Regional Office, said, "The CDOs were complex but the lesson is simple: collateral managers bear the same responsibilities to their clients as every other investment adviser. When they violate their clients' trust, we will ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
An academic paper that warns five US pension funds could run out of money in less than 10 years due to chronic underfunding and poor returns serves as a precautionary tale for local investors. In a paper published last August titled 'The Liabilities ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... were for several months now. There's the good, the bad and the rumours. In essence, all confirm a bull market, all confirm a bear market and all confirm a consolidation. The good: US industrial production increased by 1.2 per cent in May - more than ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
ow that's more like it! It feels good doesn't it? This may be the one we've been waiting for when something, somehow happens that short circuits the cycle of fear that had been feeding on itself for months now. Although, he didn't say much that the ...

Turning Bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... fur, what used to be hooves are now claws and I am getting an unusual craving for honey. OMG! I think I'm turning into a bear! No, not because of last week's US non-farm payrolls report nor news that Hungary is following the European PIGS down the drain. ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
Is this the moment of truth? Is this the thing that'll shoo the residual bears -- that still loiter the streets of the financial markets - back into a long period of hibernation? Is this the one that could finally convince one and all that we are indeed ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
The bulls beat the bears in the continuing tug-of-war for the hearts and minds of investors and speculators everywhere. Shucks! Just when I was already beginning to question the strength of my own positive conviction -- that perhaps there are just way ...

RIP May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... easily the "Month of the PIGS". With only one trading day to go until May closes, I think it's safe to give this game to Team Bear. Congratulations to all those who sold and went away in May! Monday, 31 May 2010, is a Memorial Day holiday in America ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Australian shares are set to open lower after Wall Street fell on Friday as a downgrade of Spain's credit rating added to worries about the eurozone's financial woes. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market has received mixed leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing weaker but contract prices for oil, gold, silver and copper ending firmer. At 0728 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract ...