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Mercer to consult $2bn Motor Commission

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
The $2 billion Motor Accident Commission in South Australia has selected Mercer for its investment consulting services. Andrew Harrex and Greg Barr, principals at Mercer, will work with the consultant's insurance expert, Peter Hughes, to review the ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
'Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time...' Forgive me but this song from the 1970's English rock band Queen keeps playing in my head. You would be humming the song too if you woke up to Wall Street's 2.6 per cent jump overnight - the day General ...

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 ...

Perpetual buys Financial Pursuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... many practices have been, but we chose Perpetual because they provide us with the cultural fit," said the company's founder Fred Marishel. He added that he likes the fact that Perpetual has a long history of providing service to high net worth clients ...

Mercer expands property and Aust eq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... particularly in Asia. Mercer has appointed John Wills to the role of senior real estate researcher, Australia/ New Zealand, and Fred Tang, as senior real estate researcher, Hong Kong, to join Mercer's real estate team which is under the leadership of ...

China could own America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
To nationalise or not to nationalise - that is the question. US equity markets continued to reel on speculation that America would soon become a Socialist State - that is it would control finance which is the lifeblood of the economy. Among notable ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

Frontier hires analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Frontier Investment Consulting hired hedge fund researcher, Ching Lee as an analyst. Lee previously worked at Shadforth Financial Group/Haintz Financial Services as an analyst and prior that appointment as a research assistant at Monash University analysing ...

Ho hum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
The Australian equity market rallied nearly 6 per cent yesterday - its biggest one-day advance in more than 10 years. Ho-hum. Given the spectacular volatility in the equity markets over the past few months, daily movements of plus or minus 5-7 percent ...

In defense of Citi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The US government's bail-out of Citigroup shows that policymakers have learnt the lessons of September when the collapse of Lehman Brothers launched financial market panic of seismic proportions. The 158-year old Lehman Brothers - may it rest in peace ...