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Super funds chase CPI linked assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... global pension funds. According to a global research study by Towers Watson, in conjunction with UK newspaper Financial Times, alternative assets managed by global fund managers on behalf of pension funds grew 16% in 2010. The research, which covers ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... the moment (the final nail in the coffin perhaps?) As Harvard University Professor Marin Feldstein writes in the Financial Times, "If Greece were the only insolvent European country, it would be best if its default occurred now...But Greece is not alone ...

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... approaches can overweight companies that have high share prices even though they are under-performers. Speaking on a Financial Times web broadcast, Sauter said, "Indexing is trying to get the market return at the lowest cost possible." In contrast, Sauter ...

Rejoice for May has gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... assistance for Greece by the end of June and has ruled out a "total restructuring" of its debt. According to the Financial Times, the EU and the IMF would lend a,-30 bil to Greece so it can stay afloat through to next year with the rest of its funding ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... world. This tragedy might as well be the turning point that rouses Japan from its two decade long stupor. From the Financial Times, "A few years ago, a senior official at Japan's finance ministry shocked a foreign guest by making a deliberately provocative ...

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... start off proceedings toward higher interest rates and... it might not have to wait until the second half. The Financial Times quote BOE monetary policy committee member, Andrew Sentence, saying that, "If we do not start to raise interest rates gradually ...

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... and doom" Roubini has made a comeback proclaiming that Spain is too big to fail and too big to bail (out). The Financial Times Deutschland reported that most other governments in the eurozone and the European Central Bank are already pressuring Portugal ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... prolonged the Great Depression. This is not lost on the International Monetary Fund. In an interview with The Financial Times, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "There is clearly the idea beginning to circulate that currencies can be used ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Lies, damned lies! This was China's response to a Financial Times report that its State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) met with foreign bankers to discuss reviewing its holdings of Eurozone bonds. SAFE manages Beijing's US$2.4 trillion worth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... in the 16-nation bloc. China, the world's largest holder of foreign-exchange reserves, called the report in the Financial Times that it was mulling such a move "baseless". Some of the climb could also be tied to short-covering, which occurs when traders ...