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Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... Everything's turning up daisies one more time. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Hate to say this but... didn't I tell you it would? That the Irish problem, like Greece's and Dubai's, would go away - or at least relegated till the next European debt scare when financial ...

When Irish eyes are frowning

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
Local fixed interest managers are positioning their portfolios carefully to avoid the Irish fiscal hangover and to exploit opportunities. The European sovereign debt crisis, which has been bubbling under the surface for months now, has resurfaced and ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... back to the US dollar, and together with its restrictions, speculative hot money inflows would ease somewhat. Now for those Irish eyes that have lost their smiles. I think it was only a week ago when the Irish issue first re-emerged on the financial ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... this path in the middle of this year. Financial markets eventually got over it. They're still buying Greek, Portuguese, Irish, Spanish and Italian bonds. The additional money now sloshing in the system would find their way there too.

Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... in the US dollar (bring me the head of the one who said that the US currency would be a worthless piece of paper). When Irish eyes are not smiling. An Irish newspaper report questioning the government's capacity to reduce spending next year sent credit ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... with Europe's sovereign debt. It might flare up again. Wait... it's flared up again. Bloomberg reported last night that, "Irish 10-year yields surged 17 basis points to 6.74 percent and the premium investors demand to own the bonds instead of benchmark ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... circulate in the economy means reduced growth. And what do we get when there's new sovereign debt worries, spreads blow out. Irish and Portuguese bond spreads to German bunds widened to record highs while still-wide Greek bond spreads rose to their highest ...

SSgA cuts securities lending on fixed income funds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... securities lending program for a range of UCITS fixed income funds. SSgA, a prominent securities lender, announced on the Irish Stock Exchange last week that it had stopped its securities lending program on 13 July. It had also started the closure of ...

World-class Aussie funds reach Europe through UCITS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... "Their product will get the local feel at the level that is as close as possible to the Australian version." According to the Irish Funds Industry Association, Irish-domiciled UCITS funds have grown to become a a,-621 billion market as of February this ...

Perennial gains intl insto mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... Perennial, said the fund manager has focused on gaining more international investors and gained an investment mandate from an Irish institution. "[Global property] was the darling asset class in 2006, the big pension funds started allocating to global ...