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I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Get behind me Satan! I was ever so tempted to simply regurgitate the financial headlines and commentaries and blogs that went blinkety-blink on my screen this morning. It would have made my day a bit easier. The headlines differed yes...but at the same ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed the week 90 points up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 90.54 points (0.63 per cent) at 14,512.03 on Friday. The broad-based S&P 500 increased 11.09 (0.72 per cent) ...

Equipsuper approved to offer MySuper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
Equipsuper has become the 14th super fund to be gain MySuper authorisation. The preliminary marketing name for the product is Equipsuper MySuper, noting that only nine of the 14 MySuper products authorised so far have the product class name integrated ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
You gotta give it to the Europeans, they sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Financial markets celebrated after reports that a deal had been struck between the government of Cyprus and its benefactors. Nobody gave two hoots whether it's a ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed the week 90 points up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 90.54 points (0.63 per cent) at 14,512.03 on Friday. The broad-based S&P 500 increased 11.09 (0.72 per cent) ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed the week 90 points up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 90.54 points (0.63 per cent) at 14,512.03 on Friday. The broad-based S&P 500 increased 11.09 (0.72 per cent) ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Now wasn't that just classic entertainment? I doubt that even the best of the best comedic minds could come up with a farce such as the one the Australian Labor Party delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the ...

SSgA launches low-risk global equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Active management is a tough game and picking active managers is just as tough, warns State Street Global Advisers' Lochiel Crafter. The head of investments for the Asia Pacific at SSgA says that investors are often disappointed by the returns generated ...

Corporate governance still needs to improve in Asian markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Corporate governance is still an issue of concern when investing in Asian markets and while international financial centres such as Singapore or Hong Kong have improved tremendously, there are still problems that need to be tackled. A survey conducted ...