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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... days, there was no follow-through the next days," said Mace Blicksilver, director of Marblehead Asset Management. "Today is nice, but tomorrow's the real test." The new S&P 500 record reflected the continued resilience of US stocks thanks to loose monetary ...

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 ...

$1m in super not enough: Cooper

MARK SMITH AND AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... greater than the age pension. The chairman of retirement income at Challenger, says a million dollars is always seen as a nice round figure in debates such as the present one surrounding super tax concessions. But using the current 10-year bond rate ...

Global dividend growers suit retirement income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
Adding a global equity income investment strategy to retirees' existing income strategies would add diversification and help address concentration risk in many portfolios, according to global active fund manager Capital Group. The investment giant ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception." -Sophocles Breakfast wasn't nice for me yesterday. Nah, Virginia, it wasn't because the toast was burnt or the bacon and eggs semi-cooked. It's because I was eating my own words with my foot in my ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... subside, igniting a secular decline that would last for much of the next twenty years." Now imagine the opposite happening. Nice, ain't it?

Australia according to Gov Glenn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
Thank you Australian Financial Review (AFR) and RBA Governor Glenn Stevens for your early Christmas present - the gift of sharing. In what has now become a "tradition," we learned from the AFR Gov Glenn's thoughts on: The international economy: "The ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
It's them, not us! This is the not so subtle message Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney delivered at his opening remarks following the release of the BOE's Quarterly Inflation Report last night. But of course, being the astute central banker ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... repeating. For instant recall, the S&P dropped by approximately 16% on each occasion. If I'm right, the implications are not so nice - the cat's hooked and meows only on QE support. But hey, I'm not one to fight the Fed.

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... says Melbourne very quickly felt like home. "Melbourne is quite similar to Toronto. It's a multi-cultural city, people are nice, it's easy to get around. When I first moved here people used to say, 'If you haven't gone to one of the private schools in ...