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Out with the new old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Headline: IMF warns worst to come, toxic debt to reach US$4,100,000,000,000. Yeah...yeah. Sure...sure. I am so scared. Wall Street ignored the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). This is because while delivered ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Whoa boy! Take it easy. How many times have we been admonished by our elders to chew our food slowly right in the middle of chomping down a big chunk of that juicy, tender, savoury steak? Not once, not twice but many, many times. Because it is the me ...

BNP turns to games for education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
BNP Paribas has developed a video game that allows the bank's European based employees to create their own virtual bank and learn more about the international banking system. The game, Starbank, allows employees or players to build a bank in an orbital ...

Super and pensions under attack

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
It's still open season on Australia's retirement savings system as two more reports have been released attacking the social inequity of superannuation and age pension rules. The Australia Institute has released a research paper that argues superannuation ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
The contest for 'The Biggest Loser' went into full swing as bad news continued to flow. Right on the heels of the Eurozone's 1.5 per cent economic contraction in the fourth quarter, Japan's weigh in showed that its economy lost more, down 3.3 per cent ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Gung Hay Fat Choy! The English version of Happy New Year has not worked for financial markets so far. Perhaps the Chinese one will. The web says that in Cantonese these words also mean 'may prosperity be with you.' Indeed, may prosperity be with us ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
'The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.' (Jesse Livermore). While most of us were sleeping (those lucky enough to have their A$1 turn to A$0.80 instead of A$0.20), Wall Street was ...

SWIFT fast tracks insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
Messaging platform giant SWIFT has inked a deal with some of the largest insurers and reinsurers in the world that will enable insurers, brokers and reinsurers move from paper-based admin processing to an automated format using a standardised industry ...

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
Housing affordability is like petrol prices in that it brings out the economic enthusiasts with their so-called miracle solutions. The latest set of big ideas is from the Senate Select Committee on Housing Affordability that this week released its major ...

Bannned AFS planner to appeal

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
AFS has expressed disappointment over the Australian Securities and Investments Commission decision to ban one of its advisers, Michael Parker, and said it will support his appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. ASIC banned Parker after it found ...