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Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... not the metal that's now in a bear market). Forget the daily servings of eco stats and survey results that only baffle the brain as to whether economies are improving or deteriorating and/or the Fed would unwind sooner or later. Enough of that Virginia! ...

Active management a 2% tax drag

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... returns over and above the tax cost. "Cap-weighted indices are backward looking and contain stocks that anyone with half a brain wouldn't go anywhere near. That creates a serious drag on portfolios," he said. On whichever side of the active/passive debate ...

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 ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
Go ahead punk, make my day! This is basically what the Parliament of itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie Cyprus told its Goliath paymasters when it rejected their demand to impose a tax on bank deposits as a pre-condition to their salvation. Not one of the 56 ...

EM corp bonds better than US: CFSGAM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Investors can get a better return on emerging markets corporate bonds than they can on US corporates with the same credit rating, according to Colonial First State Global Asset Management's Helene Williamson. Previously only deemed appropriate for speculators ...

New investment paradigm governed by science: Winton

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
Underscoring the investment path less traveled by London-based Winton Capital Management is a reliance on a cadre of in-house research brainiacs to unearth more reliable returns. Its flagship managed futures fund boasts a 120-man team comprising a mixture ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
Pa-lease stop with these nudge, nudge, wink, wink already -- and ease up on the promises and pledges while you're at it. No, I speak not to you Virginia, but it is to Ben and Mario I direct my displeasure. I've been watching the markets for decades ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
We've peered through the Hole and we saw something - we think. Now it's the Europeans turn. Yes Virginia, the Europeans are back in town! And yes, Virginia, we can tell because we're hearing the same rhetoric from the usual suspects being replayed on ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

Market shocks likely: Advance Asset Management

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... integrated with Asia and we have been riding the miner's back for too long. We have to shift to education and reverse the brain-drain. We cannot continue to depend on exports." America will also find it hard to initiate any meaningful structural change ...