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Ex Deutsche AM chief joins Africa charity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... the way through from primary to secondary," said O'Brien. Oasis Africa's annual fund raiser - including cocktail party, music, education exhibits, plus art and a charity auction - will be held on 22 November in a Woolloomooloo warehouse converted for ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... number is "the sixth consecutive month it has been below 100, its long-run average." OMG! Two thousand one was the time the music died for the dotcoms and the US was in recession in 2001 and we know what happened in 2008-09. Not happy Jan! Not one to ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
"What do you see You people gazing at me You see a doll on a music box That's wound by a key..." -- Doll on a Music Box All eyes are fixed on the RBA today. Will they? Won't they? Make it three (interest rate cuts) for three (Board meetings)? As far ...

Fund managers out-invest school kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
At this year's ASX Schools Sharemarket Games, the 60,000 participating school students showed that they have only half the skill of professionals investment managers. The results should come as welcome relief to managed funds investors throughout Australia ...

Wealthy prefer online shopping

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... online expenditure across more item categories. For example, while the major categories are now clothes, airline tickets, music and computer games, this will broaden into higher yield bigger ticket categories such as financial services as the current ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Deal! This single word was music to the ears of investors everywhere. After weeks of restless anxiety, it came to pass - the powers-that-are in Washington agreed to raise the nation's US$14,300,000,000,000 debt ceiling. True to script the negotiations ...

They will deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... most other financial markets singing "joy to the world" - died down overnight. To be sure, the DJ's didn't turned off the music - they just changed the tune from hip hop, break-dancing rhythm to Andrea Bocelli's "Con Te Partiro" You can tell by just ...

Dark pools attract larger trades and ASIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Conference on May 26, ASIC commissioner, Shane Tregillis, compared dark pools to a pulp fiction, hearing the Jaws theme music every time he thinks of the term 'dark pools'. "For me the term conjures up the famous 'shark approaching music theme' from ...

Timbercorp trio face the music

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Failed agribusiness Timbercorp's former directors must today face a class-action suit filed against them in 2009 by more than 2000 investors in the Supreme Court. The investors have made allegations of conflicts of interest, breaches of directors' duties ...

Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... April gain was mainly due to higher spending on food and fuel. Purchases at furniture stores, sporting goods, hobby, books & music stores, electronic & appliances shops and at health & personal care stores all declined in April. Higher food and petrol ...