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POLICYHOLDERS of NTUC Income can expect a surprise bonus this year to commemorate its 40th anniversary. Yesterday, its chief executive Tan Suee Chieh told The Straits Times that it is likely to do ’something special’ for its customers to mark the anniversary.
Details will be announced when the insurance cooperative posts its investment performance next month or in April.
Besides the good news for … more

A federal judge on Friday dismissed options-backdating charges against the son of the former chief executive of Engineered Support Systems, a military contractor.

THE weighting of Asean markets in most global portfolios seems small due to a perceived lack of investment opportunities, low liquidity and weak investor relations in the region, Singapore Exchange chief executive Magnus Bocker said yesterday.
He raised this point from an unnamed study of investor perceptions of regional markets that highlighted the attractiveness of Asean markets at the same time… more

More of America’s largest companies will shrink their staffs than will hire in the next six months, according to the latest survey of their CEOs.

Chief executive officer – Business – Employment – United States – PRWEB

(SINGAPORE) Singapore Exchange will launch contracts for gold, coffee and fuel oil early next year and invest heavily to support high-tech trading, new chief executive Magnus Bocker said yesterday at a derivatives industry conference.
‘I think there is a great opportunity for Singapore and SGX to be more in the forefront of trading and clearing of energy products,’ Mr Bocker, who took over from Hs… more

THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) will launch an oil futures contract in the first quarter of next year, said the exchange’s new chief executive Magnus Bocker yesterday.
This comes as the trading of instruments linked to commodities hots up here, with another commodities exchange set to start operations soon.
The new SGX contract – effectively a bet on the future price of oil – will be linked to bunker… more

(SINGAPORE) THE median resale prices of executive condominiums (ECs) have increased 63 per cent in the past two years, riding on the bull run in the private residential market, a report says.

Caveats lodged for ECs in the resale market in October 2009 showed prices at $519 per sq ft (psf), says CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). This is 63 per cent higher than at the bottom of the market in Q3 2006, when … more

The Walt Disney Co. posted a surprise 18 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings Thursday and announced an executive job switch that might point to an eventual successor to Chief Executive Robert Iger.

Walt Disney Company – Robert Iger – Chief executive officer – Movies – Studios

THE global financial crisis has done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of private banking chiefs for Asia, including China and the Middle East.
Banks targeting wealthy individuals are ramping up their hiring while some senior executives from Europe are re-locating to the region to be closer to their new growth centres.
HSBC group private banking chief executive Chris Meares told a conference at the… more

Reuters – Koenigsegg’s chief executive said on Saturday the Swedish luxury sports car maker still aimed to finalize a deal to buy Saab Automobile from General Motors by the end of October.