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When the time comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... There's a news article in the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, that Goldman Sachs "helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules". Sunk by ...

New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... The lack of diversity in the assets was based on the fact that they were largely guaranteed by the government. Is this now true? Who is the depositor - is it the custodian or the individual? I am not sure of the answers to this yet," he said. Bridges ...

Macquarie rolls out capital protection

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... feedback we received from advisers told us that their clients are seeking wealth preservation solutions, which may offer true diversification, strong risk management and income potential over the long term," said Macquarie Global Investments division ...

Japanese history lesson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... investor still holding those purchases made 20 years earlier in the hope that the Nikkei will recover and I'll show you a true Confucian - you know, that one who said, "patience is a virtue". From December 1989 to December 2009, the Nikkei-225 index ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
The largest US pension fund responds to mounting concerns about the true nature of the pension fund-placement agent-fund manager relationship by revealing the details of more than 600 placement agent disclosures to the public. The disclosures - received ...

Room for Russia in BRIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... Russia trumped India and China as the fastest growing BRIC economy from 2000 to 2009 - growing 4.8 times over the period. True, there are serious issues. "The trouble is that its market is incredibly volatile. Shareprices correlate to the oil prices ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... hearing. I'm going to ask that the full question and answer be included in today's hearing record. Now, if that statement was true and you had acted according to it, I might be supporting your nomination today. But since then, you have decided that just ...

Small thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... doesn't like what it sees. Perhaps. Perhaps. Perhaps. But it's always the case that the simplest explanation is likely to be true. And this is that Americans are busily stuffing turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner - to give thanks for the bountiful harvest ...

Planners brace for fiduciary revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
The financial planning industry's worst nightmare is about to come true with the Ripoll Report recommending advisers become fiduciaries, payments from product providers to planners should cease and that ASIC significantly step up its shadow shopping ...