
If only they had shorted the market instead, things would have been different now...

See what i mean....We R helpless in need.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090217/tap-singapore-invest-gic-swf-finance-eco-06f3cb7.html
State investment company Government of Singapore Investment Corp, or GIC, reportedly lost S$50b last year. »More
teeth53 ( Date: 18-Feb-2009 07:45) Posted:
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Today Straits Times paper mentioned Concerns about ecnomy go back to mid-2008 and
not back to 2007. It also shown President S. R. Nathan picture., and has makes it public for the 1st times to allow to use of rederves.
When warning sign has long been posted in Mid-2007 and many others has also put up red flags by end 2007.
All those top decision people's is ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
SupremeA ( Date: 15-Feb-2009 21:32) Posted:
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No lor Sg govt is perfect 1. How can they possibly make mistakes.
If you think they wrong you must be the one who is wrong.
Since then.....the one who was instrumental in bringing in Ho Ching and it was based purely on merit is equally and fully responsible, is still vey comfortable headed Tamasick....headed for sick bed liao
Mind U before that Tamasek Holding is in very health position and after that..is so different, one who has choosen must equally responsible and account for it.......
teeth53 ( Date: 15-Feb-2009 09:57) Posted:
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From day one, even since....and losses amounted to........ZZZzzz
"Whether this is a way of making a change of someone
who is related to the prime minister, this has been a
point that I've dealt with since the first day Ho
Ching was appointed as CEO. I was very instrumental in
bringing in Ho Ching and it was based purely on merit
and has nothing to do with her relationship to
anyone," he said.
So it took the Senior Minister of State for finance. Mrs Lim Hwee Hua to defend GIC and Tamsick losses instead of those responsible who are still very, very Senior or very matured minister to defend and has collected several million of Sing$ dollar in salary (Minister salary) after lossing not only S$58 billion, to a tune of (estimated) to be S$190billion to S$200 billion in losses...SAD
BACK on TRACK....What this.???...by Mrs Lim Hwee Hua
As for the Government Investment Corporation of
Singapore or GIC, the investment analyst said it would
also lose more than a third of the value of its
investment portfolio.
"GIC started the crisis with roughly Singapore $550
billion in reserves. My (her) estimate is that it has lost
about S$190-S$200 billion of that, leaving it with about
$350 billion left. This amount is equivalent to 200
per cent of Singapore's gross domestic product," he
added.
"So both have lost money but their performance has not
been out of line with other large funds, possibly a
bit better. These are all worst-case estimates."
teeth53 ( Date: 09-Feb-2009 23:48) Posted:
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sovereign wealth fund in short term
Ho Ching's resignation as CEO of Temasek Holdings
would not cloud heavy losses of about 40 per cent at
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund amid the global
financial market meltdown.
The Government Investment Corporation of Singapore
(GIC) is also suffering similar heavy losses.
An investment analyst in Singapore said Temasek's
results will be released in April and he estimated
that of its US$125 billion portfolio as of March 2008,
Temasek would have lost 40 per cent, leaving it with
about US$75 billion left.
As for the Government Investment Corporation of
Singapore or GIC, the investment analyst said it would
also lose more than a third of the value of its
investment portfolio.
"GIC started the crisis with roughly Singapore $550
billion in reserves. My estimate is that it has lost
about $190-$200 billion of that, leaving it with about
$350 billion left. This amount is equivalent to 200
per cent of Singapore's gross domestic product," he
added.
"So both have lost money but their performance has not
been out of line with other large funds, possibly a
bit better. These are all worst-case estimates."
Ho, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsieng Loong,
announced last week that after almost seven years at
the helm of Temasek, she would step down by October
this year. She would be succeeded by Chip Goodyear, a
former CEO of BHP Billiton Ltd, who would be the first
foreigner to run the sovereign wealth fund.
Temasek Holdings was set up by proceeds from the
privatisation of Singapore's state-owned firms, while
GIC by international reserves of the Monetary
Authority of Singapore. Both represent the investment
vehicles of Singapore, which has eyed for a global
reach for its investment.
The transition is taking place at a time when
Singapore is suffering the worst economic problems
since 1960s. Temasek, racked a return of about 17 per
cent a year since its inception in 1974 and March this
year, is also going to face a drastic restructuring of
its investment strategy.
Under her leadership, and also as wife of Prime
Minister Lee Hsian Loong, Ho led Temasek to embark on
audacious acquisitions in China, Asia, Europe and the
United States. Temasek's buy-out of Shin Corp,
previously owned by former prime minister Thaksin
Shinawatra, in January 2006 sparked out a political
turmoil inside Thailand followed by a military coup in
September that same year.
Ho's resignation has also sparked a debate inside
Singapore. Tharman Shangmugaratnam, the finance
minister, preferred to handle the issue with a
diplomatic term, saying that Ho's departure wasn't
linked to the performance of Temasek's investments.
"Whether this is a way of making a change of someone
who is related to the prime minister, this has been a
point that I've dealt with since the first day Ho
Ching was appointed as CEO. I was very instrumental in
bringing in Ho Ching and it was based purely on merit
and has nothing to do with her relationship to
anyone," he said.
The investment analyst in Singapore said Ho's
resignation was planned for about a year. "I don't
think it has much to do with Temasek's performance.
This is Singapore, favoured people are not made to
resign for performance! I think Singapore leaders are
more concerned over the Sovereign Wealth Fund issue.
It becomes more difficult to defend Singapore's
sovereign wealth fund as a non-state actor with no
political agenda if the wife of the prime minister is
running it," he said.
Singapore's economy is facing a severe downturn, with
growth rate plunging into the negative territory. "We
recently revised downward our GDP forecast to minus
2.8 per cent to reflect the likelihood that the
contraction in the first half of 2009 could be deeper
than previously expected," said Citi's Asia Economic
Outlook and strategy (January 23, 2009). "Advance
estimates for the fourth quarter of 2008 showed a
contraction of 2.6 per cent from a year ago, down
sharply from 0.3 per cent the previous quarter. On a
quarter on quarter seasonally adjusted annualised
rate, the fourth quarter GDP contracted 16.9 per cent
- the worst on record."
Singapore has recently entered into a currency swap
arrangement with the US Federal Reserve, which worked
out the swap arrangements with selected countries
including Brazil and Korea, to avert the financial
crisis, data of the US Federal Reserve show.
Unlike Korea, which has drawn down the currency swap
arrangement, Singapore has not yet drawn down the
swap.
teeth53 ( Date: 09-Feb-2009 23:48) Posted:
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Well know, famous...n very popular...under estimated Sub-prime n it housing home-loan crisis..is not by pure incident or by accident. Decision maker in Chairman it n CEO...Pls wake those remain few so call talented...when so much people's has put up alot of red flags and even markers since late 2007. I said many times B4...ZZZzzz on d job n brunt-ly think...we R as very ordinary people's as what they thought by a few n if we depend just on 1 man...dead memm...
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090209/tts-finance-banking-switzerland-ubs-cred-c1b2fc3.html
The massive spread of so-called "toxic" assets -- mainly linked to financial instruments now worth very little because of the US home-loan crisis -- throughout the global banking system is at the core of the crisis.
teeth53 ( Date: 05-Feb-2009 23:39) Posted:
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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090209/tts-finance-banking-switzerland-ubs-cred-c1b2fc3.html that why we need to dig into reserve..
Two Switzerland's largest banks, UBS & Credit Suisse, R set to announce combined losses for 2008...29 bil Swiss francs late this wk
teeth53 ( Date: 24-Jan-2009 15:24) Posted:
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Why Singapore govt dig into our reserve
Never will 1 2 listen, only to be told, their mindset is fix as old as their mind can work. same goes to d younger housewfie....very in-experience in managing too many big houses.
teeth53 ( Date: 05-Feb-2009 23:01) Posted:
teeth53 thot so....hmm...Just a reminder been. we r at stage four liao...Ya teeth53 ( Date: 21-Oct-2008 16:30) Posted:
̉bama as US President is ...good, but..but with Angmo (westerner) around to assist him... i see monkey do...monkeys does... as.....just like..Westerners are good con men, so are their followers. Take for example Madoff fraud hit up to 3 million victims: law firm, Obama demands stimulus action but Republicans want changes teeth53 thot: Westerner has been proven to be world best Professional Con Man...Ya. I was just recalling our SMM said...said after US President took office...mentioned 3 to 6 months and pending what even it take....while in Hong Kong, thot..was so wonderful to hear that, at that point in times. "The unorthodox must be considered and I'm quite sure that the team-in-charge is quite capable of thinking up all the sums and all the equations. What they do in the next three to six months will decide whether it's going to be long and deep or medium and shallow. I do not believe it's going to be a short V-shaped recovery, it's not possible," the minister mentor said. The president said he was taking full responsibility for rescuing the U.S. economy, in its worst downturn in 80 years. "If I don't have this done in three years then there's gonna be a one-term proposition," Obama said, already looking ahead to the 2012 presidential election.
13-Dec-2008
Obama revival plan to stimulus and nurse back it US economy...3 years to turn around. He can on d last lap (1st term) can show is on d up swing...good liao
S'pore said at least it is going to last us a year, this prolong recession
Singapore is 1st into hitting recession and 1st to get out of recession..jobs credit scheme help alot that is equivalent to a 9-perentage-point cut in employers' CPF contribution, saving workers more pain. This can sustain aggregate demand and putting pressure to save jobs. For more info...Pls read following Straits Times paper (Sat) Jan 31, 2009 (Page A29-A30) Review.Insight This will becoming another model for other (certain) nations to look at....condition subject to their local modification
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