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Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... turn ugly -- if it hasn't already -- if left to its own devices. We can all extrapolate all the way down to the bowels of hell. But no! Something is being done. As I write this piece, the European Union is reportedly scrambling to hammer out a coordinated ...

Liptak joins Zenith

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
Daniel Liptak, hedge fund expert and co-founder of Hatfield Liptak Advisors, has joined Zenith Investment Partners as head of alternatives research. Liptak brings to Zenith a track record of 16 years within investment analysis and research. This includes ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... interest to do so. Else, the risk premium on the entire region would rise and with it, Eurozone borrowing costs. So what the hell were the previous weeks' market rattle all about? My guess is they were sensationalised by US bond market peddlers. They ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... markets continue to gain ground over the next 12 months? To know where we're headed, we must first look at where the bloody hell we are in the current investment and economic cycle. And where we are in 2010 is much the same as when 09 preceded 20. The ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
Natural Capital joins a nascent group of fund managers hell-bent on saving the planet by backing companies that put the environment first, profits second. Sustainable investing, called by any other name, has been around for decades. But Angus Forbes ...

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
Head fake. So which one is the head fake? The Dow climbing past 10,000 or the Dow sinking below 10K? Over the past three trading days, the Dow has been playing seesaw on the 10,000 fulcrum -- over 10K Thursday, under 10K Friday, over 10K Monday. To ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... economy. Self-preservation dictates tolerance of a weak currency and low interest rates to boost the domestic economy. The hell with everybody else! This may be so - if the US does not owe everybody else...a lot. Just as is happening now, low interest ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... all governments of any colour. But 'ideal' perhaps is the key word here. It is like shooting for the stars or asking that hell freeze over. For if these could be achieved, it would have happened after the Great Depression of the 1930s. It would have ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... the same. Cant' find anything on Standard & Poor's but my guess is they went the way of Moody's and Fitch. Where the bloody hell were they one day, one week, one month, one year before the Lehman went kaput? In their defense, credit rating agencies don't ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... bombardment conditioned markets to expect only the worst with investors projecting this to an indefinite future or until hell freezes over. Given widespread expectations of gloom and doom and that it would only become gloomier and doomier - think there ...