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The long and short of bulls and bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... time a recession or a market crash ensue, central banks and governments intervene. The same is happening now. The bull market will continue while the stimulus packages are still here or until excess becomes excessive. D.R. Beare. Might have some momentum ...

Capital protection should be core to satellite

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... founder of Alpha Structured Investments, designed financial products with capital protection in 2005, a time when the bull market would have made paying a premium for the feature sound silly. But Rumble's clients, mainly high net worth investors and ...

Recession over! Sigh!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... reasons cited for this. But who could say for sure that this would not change in an instant? The same way that the bull market turned into a spectacular crash with the flick of Lehmann? A V is very much still plausible. This is because the current recession ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... would be in. Reminds me of another star analyst, Abbey Joseph Cohen, of Goldman Sachs who rose to fame during the bull market leading up to the dotcom bust. Her star burnt out after persisting on her bullish views as the dotcoms were crashing in early ...

US planners prefer fee model: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... risen. Average earnings increased almost $25,000 to $270,000 compared to 2008 numbers. This is still a far cry from the bull market days with the average earnings topping $291,000 in 2006 and $355,000 in 2007. While salaries steadily start to rise so ...

Treasury boutiques gain inflows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... projects; Cannae Capital Partners, an Australian and New Zealand equities investor, is still developing. "During the bull market I think people got used to boutiques taking off quickly, but really it takes a period of time for it to take off and Cannae ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... months reminded me of this saying. Most of the time in my previous life, I was using it to pick the turning point of a bull market. For instance, during the 1987 Stockmarket Crash and in 2000 when the dotcoms were still blowing hot air -- higher rates ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

... their existing clients; financial literacy campaigns; and developing products and services that better suited the post-bull market era. In the new world where the investing public demands more transparency and accountability, marketers play a bigger ...

ESSSuper closes Cash Plus option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The $14 billion Emergency Services & State Super has closed the doors of its cash plus strategy six months after the introduction of its pure cash option. According to a statement on the ESSSuper website, the fund closed its cash plus option to new ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... cent above its 9 March low and the Dow more than 27 per cent higher. Hold on...isn't this the classic definition of a bull market? A bull market is generally defined as when stock prices rise 20 per cent from their lows. A bear market, the reverse. Bears ...