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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
... October to 5.5% in November 1994. But also note that the S&P 500's bullrun did not end until five years later when the dotcom bubble went bust in 2000. It went from 459.27 points in 1995 to a high of 1,500.59 - a 227% surge... and this despite the Fed ...

China impossible to ignore for asset managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... globalisation that needs to happen with restoring confidence in what looks to us as a leveraging, largely retail investor-driven bubble that's certainly begun to correct. "But these are some of the natural corrections that an economy of that size is ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... longer. Perhaps the gold bears have been correct all along and gold bugs wrong -- that gold just experienced a speculative bubble and would now continue to deflate -- especially considering that Grexit and China's stock market crash fears have not been ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... Graiver, says that "we were a bit reluctant on Chinese equities a year ago." The fund manager feared "the Chinese property bubble collapsing, a number of risks around the credit growth that's accelerating very fast and GDP growth being insufficient." ...

SMSF direct property investment jumps 60pct

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... borrow money to buy residential property via limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) is helping to fuel the housing bubble, SMSF Association technical and professional standards director Graeme Colley said it is misleading to use these figures ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... countries, there goes national income and global demand, there goes global growth. But the same was said of China's property "bubble" way back when was it not? The Chinese economy soldiered on despite the "collapse" of property prices. Sure, it slowed ...

High-risk pursuits may undermine super funds' solvency

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015

SMSF investors reducing cash and shares

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... of the overall investment portfolios but the trend now is that it is growing with valuations exacerbated by the housing bubble in Sydney and Melbourne," Wise said. "A noteworthy trend is the increase in investments in unit trusts which have increased ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... "look precariously supported in an environment of very low wages growth, a rundown in household savings and a housing price bubble inflating further in Melbourne and Sydney." "It is not possible to predict when the Melbourne/Sydney house price bubble ...