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The downside of Ripoll

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... expert. Michael Peters, business law lecturer from the University of New South Wales, said the industry will find it easy in theory but difficult in practice to "codify" planner fiduciary duties. He warned the worst-case scenario is that independent ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... bankrupt China so it no longer presents a threat to the US. But upon reading this, I could not help but conjure a conspiracy theory of my own. And this is, China caused the global financial crisis. The aim? To own America! This becomes possible especially ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... Currency yet - not until 2010 - and the Chinese yuan is still not freely convertible. But where there's smoke... Conspiracy theory or not, this brings to the fore the market's concern about the big dollar growing small.

Focus on dividend outcome: Insync

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
... investment officer of the three-month old boutique firm Insync Funds Management, is putting a new spin to an established theory of generating yield for income. Rather than focusing on the biggest and brightest international firms with fluctuating and ...

Shadow of a doubt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
... according to their perceptions and expectations of the future and the behaviour of their counterparts. Remember 'games theory'? Having said that, it cannot be denied that doubt is slowly creeping into market psychology. Patience is gradually being eroded ...

Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... present and extrapolated into the future. They could happen or they might not. In the 1800s Thomas Malthus (of Malthusian theory fame) worried that the world will run out of food because of soaring population. What happened? People in many developed ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... largely because of China - would be immuned from the gathering global recession (at the time). Remember the decoupling theory? This ultimately proved unfounded. The US sneezed and global economies went into a coma. And we now all know and experienced ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... back to the concept of 'Riccardian equivalence' posited by nineteenth century political economist, David Riccardo. The theory states that consumers save during periods of high and increasing government deficits, expecting that this deficit will be paid ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... to international creditors. China must be nervously biting its fingernails by now. May I remind you too of the 'quantity theory of money'? Put simply, the theory states that the more money in circulation, the greater the upward pressure on inflation. ...

NAB gambles on its IFS model

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... successfully operating in Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank for a couple of years. It is fully implemented in Australia." In theory IFS will overcome any turf wars between business banking and nabCapital about who owns the corporate clients. Management ...