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THE financial crisis put the squeeze on executive pay last year, with almost half of the top brass at Singapore's leading firms having their salaries frozen or even cut. A survey has found that 44 per cent of chief executives, chief financial officers and business unit heads saw their salaries staying flat or falling last year, compared with 23 per cent of executives in the 2008 financial year. ... more

Moody's Corp discloses that its credit rating unit could face action for allegedly misleading regulators in a 2007 application to remain a nationally recognized rating agency.


Moody - Credit rating - Business - Financial services - Allegedly Unethical Firms

The government is providing a fresh $3.8 billion cash infusion to stabilize GMAC Financial Services as it struggles with hefty losses in its home mortgage unit.









Wall Street Journal – GMAC – Administration of federal assistance in the United States – GMAC Financial Services – Business

SINGAPORE) SINGAPORE’S rich are among the most optimistic of investors when it comes to property investments, and are planning to raise their exposure to the asset class in the next two years, a new study shows.

The study, by Barclays Wealth and the Economist Intelligence Unit, found that 53 per cent of high net worth inves… more

Instead they appointed Temasek unit ST Asset Management – a move backed by the independent directors – in a bid to revive the company’s flagging fortunes.

The move had been opposed by the previous manager, a unit of collapsed Australian investment bank Babcock & Brown, which fell victim to the financial crisis.

Babcock, the firm’s No. 1 shareholder with a 13.8 per cent stake, is in liquidat… more

A one-day preview at the upmarket Marina Bay Suites development saw invited buyers snap up most of the 90 units released for sale at average prices ranging from $2,200 to $2,500 per sq ft (psf).
At least 81 units were bought yesterday at the 99-year leasehold, 221-unit condominium in Marina Bay, whose launch had been delayed by almost two years, said a spokesman for Raffles Quay Asset Management, … more