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ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
The ACT government will become the first government in Australia to specifically exclude its investment funds from investing into the tobacco and arms industries. The prohibition is expected to only marginally impact the investment strategy of the $2.3 ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... strong country and helps strengthen those in the weaker ones, and continue until equilibrium is restored. Australians all let us rejoice... for we are doing our bit to lift global growth. ================== You can read Ben Ong's monthly economic insight ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... storm." Or yesterday's warning by PIMCO CEO, Mohamed El Arian, that, "This is an unusually uncertain time. It's not just Europe. Let's not forget there is a fiscal cliff in the US. Let's not forget geopolitics is heating up in Iran again." You, I and ...

ACCI calls for right to sue foreign govs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has launched a campaign for trade agreements to include on a case-by-case basis provisions allowing private companies to sue foreign governments. Known as Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions ...

Blahs take the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... reports of PIMCO CEO, Mohamed El Arian, telling the world that, "This is an unusually uncertain time. It's not just Europe. Let's not forget there is a fiscal cliff in the US Let's not forget geopolitics is heating up in Iran again." Pa-lease Mohamed. ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
Financial markets have again become Eurocentric - bobbing up and down on every blah that comes out of anybody who's somebody's lips. I don't think anybody could argue that Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is somebody. Thus, when he blahed to Germany's ...

Provisio SOA tool can test 'reasonable basis'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... compliance requirements", said Cameron O'Sullivan, director of Provisio Technologies. "The idea behind Super Comparison was to let the adviser decide within a few minutes whether to take the discussion further," he said. "For example, if the new fund ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
It's another one of those days - those days of rumours and gossips and whispers. And oh, digging around for reasons on why the glass is half empty. It was risk on after cyberspace got wind of ECB council member Ewald Nowotny telling Bloomberg that the ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... of slower global growth affecting China has increased." Can't sleep over a potential property crash? Sleep tight and don't let that bedbug bite. While Australian house prices have risen substantially against the US, "Australian dwelling prices, relative ...

Kinks in Stronger Super armour

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... funds [like the banks] and not much to show for it but I hope that's not the case. "Stronger Super will give APRA more teeth - let's hope they use them well," Miller said. Harman had further criticism for Stronger Super, arguing there was an undue focus ...