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IGCC launches climate risk survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... will be performed in conjunction with the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk, the three major investor coalitions represent US$14 trillion in funds. Survey results ...

US reforms open doors for tax-savvy advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... laying claim to the Hail Mary and forbidding other teams to use it in their playbook. FPA encourages the Senate to put American taxpayers first and pass the bill, which will lift the burden that has been unnecessarily inflicted on the tax and planning ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... for large and medium businesses and 70 per cent anticipating better loans from small businesses. And the all-important American consumer? Yes, they too are increasing their credit. News overnight showed that US consumer credit rose by US$6.41 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving generally positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all key Wall Street indices higher, although gold was flat and oil was lower. Copper hit a record high. On the ASX 24 at 0710 AEDT, the March share price ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... seen the details? GDP grew despite the reduction in government spending and a substantial drag from inventories. Why? American consumers (and businesses) spent over the period... and boy did they spend. Consumer spending - yes, the one that makes up ...

AIG sells Nan Shan stake

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
American International Group (AIG) continues on with its divestments and is selling its majority stake in Nan Shan Life Insurance Company to Taiwanese group Ruen Chen Investment Holdings. AIG agreed to offload its 97.57 per cent interest in Nan Shan ...

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... this time last year, when a surprisingly strong US fourth quarter 2009 (yes 2009) flashed before our eyes. It showed the American economy sprinted at an annual pace of close to 5 per cent in the October-December 2009 period after crawling at a rate of ...

Of Jobs, Hu and Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... eyeballs, you could afford to serve me more than this tasteless cow). This has been the script followed by Chinese and American authorities each and every time they meet. American officials leak their thoughts to the press admonishing China about its ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... goods and services. Our stateside siblings can no longer against their nature and keep on saving. That would be so un-American! They've developed "frugality fatigue" -- a term coined by the Wall Street Journal on 3 December 2010 when it reported on the ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
"Torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool" - Mary MacGregor Good thing my wife is on holidays far, far away otherwise the shape of my skull would be embedded in one of our frying pans when she reads my opening line. But honey, you know I refer not ...