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Who's scared of Grexit or lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... this was again due to Grexit and contagion -- except for the jump to 26.3 in mid-October last year ahead of the Fed's final taper decision. VIX reading overnight was at 13.27. Contrary to what the spooky headlines print, investors might not be as fearful ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... "Celebrate good times, come on". Perhaps when the Fed finally does lift-off, Wall Street will go the same way they did the "taper" of last year - it turned tantrum and then proceeded to climb happily ever after, with the S&P 500 index beating record ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... would need a joint superannuation balance of around $510,000 to achieve a comfortable retirement. Vamos said increasing the taper rate for part-pensioners from $1.50 to $3.00 per $1000 of assets, while also increasing the threshold at which the asset ...

Morrison protects homes from Age Pension means test

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... $747,000 ($922,000) * Couple homeowners $823,000 ($1.15 million) * Couple non-homeowners $1.023 million ($1.298 million). TAPER RATE (by how much the pension is reduced) * Increases from $1.50 to $3 per $1000 of assets over the test-free threshold.

Seniors weigh in on super tax discussion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... to CPI only. "However there is more work that would need to be done on the impact of other suggested changes to pension taper rates and eligibility. "What is clear is that Australia needs a new retirement incomes system, based on careful planning, good ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... show when the Shanghai composite index started to take-off - that was in October last year, the month the Fed completed its taper and the month (24 October) when China's president Xi Jinping's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) dream became ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... might be some anxiety, increasing jitters but panic it is not (yet?). Still, it makes for a good sound byte. Take that "taper tantrum" Bernanke. Would history repeat? Would financial markets ultimately get over the "patient panic" like they did the "tape ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... level in 12 years (2003) and represents a 7.6% climb this year to date, a 21% jump a month before the completion of the Fed taper in October last year and a 35.7% surged three months before Standard & Poor's took away one-A from the US of A's AAA credit ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... answer to the "lift-off" question that everyone has been waiting for - and speculating on -- since the Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the transcript of US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen's ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... this was again due to Grexit and contagion -- except for the jump to 26.3 in mid-October last year ahead of the Fed's final taper decision that was confirmed and announced following the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) 28-29 October meeting. Perhaps ...