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Ms Ooi Lay Leng is a senior portfolio manager at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), managing global fixed-income portfolios including global emerging market fixed-income and currency portfolios. She specializes in policy matters, participates in investment strategies and is responsible for fixed-income investment decisions pertaining to the Asean markets. Lay Leng has accumulated more than 10 years of experience in the fixed-income market. During her career with the fixed-income department, she had worked at GIC's London and New York offices, before returning to the GIC's head office in July 1998 Lim Heong Chye is managing director of DBS Asset Management (DBSAM). He joined DBS Asset Management in 2001 and since his joining, DBSAM's fixed-income funds have been ranked top quartile, and its flagship global fixed-income fund has received a five-star rating from Mercer Investment Consulting. He has been instrumental in enhancing DBSAM's fund management franchise and, in addition to his present responsibilities, is focused on building DBSAM's capabilities in Greater China. He also oversees the institutional marketing and client servicing functions at DBS Asset Management.

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Everyone expected the downgrade of Ford and General Motors to junk status. Now it has happened, the long-term consequences for the market are unclear. The move threatens to wipe out the trading profits of hedge funds and banks, with CDOs causing particular concern. Mark Brown reports.

The brand new city in the middle of Nigeria has grown faster than expected. Now it is time to return to the master plan

A new index should provide greater transparency to investors

There is a lot of protesting going on in Europe, especially about government by bureaucrats. What might be the economic implications? And can Italy stay in the euro zone?

Stora Enso, the forest products company, has appointed Hannu Ryöppönen as new Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President, Finance, Accounting, Legal Affairs and Investor Relations as from 1 September 2005.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Financial Markets (RBS) is the first major international bank to announce that it has gone live with streaming FX spot trading via the Bloomberg Professional Service.

- Top pay and benefits concern for organisations relates to pension fund investment

Health and beauty retailer Boots has confirmed its group financial controller Jim Smart will act as the finance chief until a successor to Howard Dodd is appointed. Dodd resigned from the post in March.

We thought that spreads on low-credit would widen as a result of rising T-Bond yields. Yet now losses at hedge funds may be the trigger of a vicious circle.

Managers in the UK receive higher fixed compensation compared to their colleagues in Continental Europe, according to a just-released Shared Service Centre Salary & Benefits Survey. This is the first time that Robert Half International and IQPC have conducted a poll of this kind to determine salary levels amongst finance and accounting staff within Shared Service Centres (SSC) and to highlight key trends in regards to the organization of a SSC.