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Van Eyk administrator optimistic of finding buyer

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... will be decided, must be convened before October 21. Van Eyk entered voluntary administration on 15 September following a crisis in its Blueprint series of managed funds.

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... the heart attack - the best indicator of high volatility is extended low volatility." He said the consequence of such a crisis could be multiple reserve currencies, increased use and trading of special drawing rights, a return to the gold standard, and ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... 2014? Perhaps... maybe... possibly. For Houston, we have a problem! Oh sorry Houston, we haven't got a problem - we got a crisis! There's Argentina defaulting on its debt (again), there's Portugal and Banco Espiritu Santo (again), there's increased geo-political ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... referring to the impact on the UK of the 1878 City of Glasgow Bank collapse. Australia's banking system was to experience a crisis of its own in the 1890s, due in part to the bursting of a property bubble. At this time, more than half the trading banks ...

Allianz launches cyber risk insurance product

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... interruption cover that can be tailored to the client's needs. Allianz Cyber Protect clients also have immediate access to a crisis response team, which includes a panel of forensic IT experts who will work with them to manage a cyber incident. Allianz ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... Spooner said the local market was the first to move on Monday to news that Ukraine was on the brink of war with Russia in a crisis that began three months ago with civilian protests against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. "We've already ...

Market down on Ukraine unrest

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... geopolitical crisis in the Ukraine escalates. The Ukraine is on the brink of war with Russia threatening to invade in a crisis that began three months ago with civilian protests against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. The deepening crisis ...

Financial execs have poor ethics, little regulatory knowledge

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... confident in their knowledge of the regulatory environment, a CFA Institute research found. The global study, entitled A Crisis of Culture: Valuing Ethics and Knowledge in Financial Services, has highlighted a number of contradictions between the reality ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 7 (going by the US time zone)...and counting. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it Virginia? Wall Street's back to the seesaw - up or down depending on every single blah US politicians' invoke over the shutdown and the debt ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... budget battle. The face-off in Washington also sent the US dollar lower, while the euro suffered selling pressure from a crisis in Italy that has left the country's five-month-old government on the brink of collapse. Tokyo fell 2.06 per cent, or 304.27 ...