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Developing Asia worst hit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... $2.1 trillion, or 57 per cent of GDP. "This is by far the most serious crisis to hit the world economy since the Great Depression. While this crisis originated in the US and some European countries, by now no region or country is insulated. I am afraid ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... big risks facing investors. Referring to how former US President Theodore Roosevelt rescued Americans from the Great Depression, Shiller said the government's bail-out package is not enough. The Obama administration needs to ensure that the taxpayers ...

Brits turn blue on pension

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... permanently high plateau.' What happened? A few days later, there was a big thud in the stock market and the Great Depression ensued. So it was in the boom, so it with the bust. For sure, there are still plenty of risks out there. But astute investors ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... peeped through under the zero line - down 0.2 per cent! And people are talking of Depression? Never mind the Great Depression, which the US and the world survived. The US economy (in year-on-year terms) contracted by even more in 1954, 1958, 1961, 1974/75 ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... remember that 'it is always darkest before dawn.' Recessions come... they also go. Our grandfathers survived the Great Depression, so shall we.

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
2008 is not 1929 and the world is not about to see the next Great Depression anytime soon, explained James Swanson, the chief investment strategist of US-based MFS Investment Management. Visiting Australia late last month, Swanson said the rounds of ...

Crisis on Facebook

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... sites. The Web 2.0 has spawned Depression 2.0, a social networking site where individuals discuss a return to the Great Depression of the 30s. Financial planners and fund managers who want to spar with their overseas counterparts on the merits or flaws ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... Ordinaries index. Investor confidence was buoyed by the biggest percentage gain on Wall Street overnight since the Great Depression and news of the federal government's $10.4 billion stimulus package for the Australian economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

FPA joins IFSA in mental health initiative

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
Planners will take on the mantle of providing better insurance cover for people with depression or other mental illnesses after their representative body, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) joined life insurance industry players in signing this ...