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All that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... 70.8. So again, I ask, what's all this jazz about the sinking feeling among American consumers? But don't take my word for it. Let's go direct to the source. Read the Conference Board's press release yourself: "Says Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference ...

Benchmarks allow funds to abdicate responsibility: Future Fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... the portfolio when active decisions based on the optimal level of risk taken should instead be the focal point. "Once you let go (of the benchmark) you do feel adrift for a while and that is when you have to think very carefully about an investment philosophy ...

No fear no greed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... slow the economy to a more sustainable growth rate? Only recently, it downshifted its GDP growth target to 7.5% from 8.0%. Let me repeat my favourite phrase, what China wants, China gets. As an aside, do your sums on the story about property prices ...

Australia's Apple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... terms, in about a decade. It will exceed that of the euro area within the next few years." How good is that? Australians all let us rejoice.

Not the biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 18 MAR 2012

Industry execs head to UK for charity marathon

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... in 2004. "Ironically four of the team were born in the UK and during that time never considered the running of a Marathon, let alone the London Marathon, but now as Australian Citizens feel that this is the Marathon for us to complete." For more information ...

Better days are getting happier

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... in Ben Selvin and the Crooners' "Happy Days are Here Again": "Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again So, Let's sing a song of cheer again." But, yes, yes, there is a but. Lest I be accused of cherry picking, I now bring you the but. ...

Goldman Sachs defends reputation after scathing NY Times op-ed

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... the finger directly at chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and president and chief operating officer Gary Cohn, who he claimed let standards drop "during their watch". However in a letter written to staff today the executives played down the importance of ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
It really does pour when it rains. I'm talking about the pouring of positive economic and survey stats primarily out of America in recent months and the optimism it engenders in investors everywhere and the virtuous cycle that this optimism has started ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... anticipating gloom heading into the New Year, there is a greater likelihood for upside surprises to surprise on the upside. Let us count the ways: No surprises that the Fed kept monetary policy steady and its pledge to keep rates at "exceptionally low ...