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It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Are we barking at the wrong tree? Let me rephrase that, we are barking at the wrong tree. It has been less than a month ago - before this wailing and gnashing of teeth - that bad China news brought hopes that central command would fight back with stimulus ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
"They see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear and think what they want to think." This saying was on full display over the past 24 hours, Virginia... just look at the headlines. Yes, of course, I'm scribbling about the talk of the town ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
It wasn't only the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that didn't surprise with its unchanged policy decision yesterday, that other reserve bank did too. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced no change in policy settings following the conclusion of ...

Australian shares lower at midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Australian shares opened slightly lower but moved higher in choppy trade following Monday's carnage when $40 billion was wiped off the share market. There were heavy falls in US and European markets overnight, particularly the latter, due to the economic ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Kelaher, that was just the beginning. In April 2009 he undertook a tripartite merger with Skandia and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), which has remained the group's brand since then. In 2011, the group embarked in the $94 million acquisition ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
You name it, we've got it. It's the drop in oil prices, it's the recovery in oil prices. It's the strong US dollar, it's the weakening US dollar in recent weeks. It's the "transitory" weakness in the US economy, it's the weakening US economy, it's... ...

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
With numbers like these, who needs a rate cut? Indications of an improving labour market and strong - very strong - housing approvals are the latest domestic economic stats the men and women of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Getting hot, hot, hot. Betting on whether the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would take down the official cash rate from a record low 2.25% to a lower 2.0% following its May Board meeting tomorrow heats up. Bloomberg's latest survey says... 24 out ...

Go flip a coin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
"Yes, no, maybe I don't know Can you repeat the question?" - 'Boss of Me' The question - again - is will the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates on the first Tuesday of next month? With barely two weeks to go and armed with the latest ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Boutique fund manager Tempo Asset Management is turning its global smart beta strategy away from the United States and Canada and finding growth in Europe and Asia. Tempo principal Joe Bracken told Financial Standard that the Tempo Global Equity Fund ...