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Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Brace yourselves people for this would be a longer-than-usual piece. Get that Monday-itis off your systems. There's work to be done, money to be made! During my weekend reading, I came across an article by a fellow named Danny Furman. His resume says ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
The GFC has claimed another victim, and it's no other than the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and French presidential candidate-in-waiting Monsieur Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The 62-year old Strauss-Kahn has been arrested on charges of ...

When good is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
I don't know about you but for moi, I feel that the financial markets have been playing in slow mo since 2010 became 2011. Gently, gently. Market players are in no hurry to buy. They're not in a rush to sell either. But who wouldn't be given the opposing ...

Investors lose $7m in Qld scam

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
A group of Queensland-based investors learnt the hard way why they should avoid unlicensed financial advice providers after ASIC catches another $7 million scam. She was sentenced to six months imprisonment but entered into a recognisance in the sum ...

CFS replaces 452 Capital with Integrity, CFSGAM

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Colonial First State Investments (CFS) has moved swiftly to replace 452 Capital with other managers following the shock departures of three senior executives, including the wife of co-founder and star fund manager Peter Morgan, from the boutique fund ...

Sigma buys CPG Research & Advisory

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
Sigma Alpha International Limited (SAIL) has bought asset consulting firm CPG Research & Advisory, a consultancy firm with around $11 billion of assets under advice. The sale is part of a new asset consulting and funds management business established ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
Hang on to your hats... volatility has returned. We're in trouble again! And you know we're in trouble if that metal whose main use is to adorn the ears, noses, fingers and arms -- and for some, even unmentionable parts of the body -- starts making ...

Integrity appoints new portfolio manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Michael Murray reunites with former colleague Paul Fiani when he left AMP to join Fiani's Aussie equities boutique firm, Integrity Investment Management. Michael joins Integrity after nearly nine years with AMP where he was a senior portfolio manager ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Gold's spectacular run in 2009 appears to have run out of puff this early in the New Year. The yellow metal produced a hefty 27.1 per cent return last year as prices jumped from US$862.20 per ounce in January 2009 to a high of US$1,212.00 an ounce on ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
There's a new twist in the tale of what we thought to be the ended saga of the GFC. The US equity market's - and by extension most other stock market's - performance over the past few weeks perfectly underscored what I've been trying to convey in my ...