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No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Waiter, there's a fly in my soup. Financial markets stopped enjoying the tasty aroma of recovery in their soups last night after Standard & Poor's warned that it might downgrade the United Kingdom's AAA credit rating because of its widening budget deficit ...

Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
From high-speed railway to high-tech alarms, fund manager K2 Asset Management banks on stocks that will flourish in the face of a global recession. Nick Griffin, the group's head of international strategy, said that investors should tap into mega-trends ...

Kofoed leaves ESSSuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... Kofoed's resignation was accepted by the Board of ESSSuper, with understanding but with great regret. Board president, Frank King, said "Don has been a tremendous asset to ESSSuper over the last 12 months. With his drive, leadership and total commitment ...

SIPPs back their expertise

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... like experienced institutions in their decision making and taking control of their investment choices," said Barbara-Ann King, head of investments at Barclays Stockbroking. "As we continue to experience volatility in the financial markets it is encouraging ...

ANZ Super reviews trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... The fund's member representative directors are elected for four-year terms, with this year marking the completion of Geoff King and Jo McKinstray's terms. Both King and McKinstray are eligible for re-election. Voting for the trustees are expected to ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Like its rich world counterparts, the Eurozone economy is contracting and the outlook for this year is non-the-brighter. But while the central banks of the US, Japan and the UK raced to the zero interest rate line, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears ...

More donations to help Bushfire Appeal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Donations continue to pour from the financial services industry for those affected by the bushfires in Victoria. In a massive outpouring of support for the victims and their families, many firms have donated cash (at least $7.2 million in total on last ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
No prize for guessing but which G-7 country is suffering a worse hangover than the US? Clue: Its name also starts with the word United. In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that global growth would ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was a sea of red at noon with the materials sector leading the losses after a negative US lead and reports that the economies of Australia's three most important export destinations are softening. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...