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When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... February and inventories are rising did not bother The Street. Neither did the 0.6 per cent fall in Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) home price index. Why? They were better than expected, that's why. The market sees what it wants to see, hear what ...

Land of the free money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... period." OMG! They really are the same! The FOMC also confirmed that it would stop buying mortgage-backed securities and agency debt by the end of this month as scheduled. And as in January, Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig dissented over the ...

FUM breaks through $1.4 tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... it's down 5 per cent during the year and down 11 per cent during the quarter. Rainmaker said the Future Fund Management Agency is still going from strength to strength now being the second biggest manager overall, the biggest institutional manager, the ...

Don't know where to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... A big question mark still hangs around the fate of the US economy. How so? Because Kieth Hall, the Commissioner of the agency that counted the numbers - the Bureau of Labor Statistics - "cannot say how much February's payroll employment was affected ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... seems that Wall Street remains unconvinced because of the weather factor. Cause even Kieth Hall, the Commissioner of the agency that counted the numbers - the Bureau of Labor Statistics - "cannot say how much February's payroll employment was affected ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... struggling with a debt and deficit crisis and hit again on Tuesday by a credit downgrade on its four largest banks from ratings agency Fitch. The London FTSE 100 index shed 36.98 points, or 0.69 per cent, to close at 5,315.09. FRANKFURT - The DAX 30 ...

Mortgage trust managers have lots of questions to answer

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... and Colonial estimated that it would not be able to make a distribution for 18 months. One research head at a fund rating agency says he has received calls from a large number of managers advising that they have no plans to suspend distributions and ...

State Street gains Charles Schwab ETF admin

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... State Street has been appointed by Charles Schwab to provide custody, fund accounting, fund administration and transfer agency service to the bank's eight exchange traded funds (ETF). George Pereira, senior vice president of Charles Schwab Investment ...

Sign Say on Pay: CalPERS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... It administers retirement benefits for more than 1.6 million active and retired state, public school, and local public agency employees and their families.

Macquarie wins mandate from Mexico

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... fund already has Ps$5.2 billion, or approximately $446 million in initial investments from Macquarie, FONADIN, a Mexican agency for infrastructure development established by President Felipe Calderon, along with seven Mexican pension funds. This is Macquarie's ...