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The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... time. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Warning my butt. Standard & Poor's not only warned but actually took away one A from Uncle Sam's AAA-rating on the 5th of August last year over the same issue. Instead of dropping, the S&P 500 index has risen by 14.9% from ...

CareSuper scoops SelectingSuper awards

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... administration. Award winners were selected from more than 120 eligible funds and products that have achieved a SelectingSuper AAA quality assessment by Rainmaker. The awards were sponsored by the insurer MetLife. The SelectingSuper award winners are ...

Political punch trading greatest risk to US economy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... Representatives blocked the route to raising the debt ceiling. As a result, ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut the US's coveted AAA credit rating. With the election thought to be one of closest contests since George W Bush beat Al Gore in 2000, many ...

NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... LGFS will be fully covered by its insurer," he said. The notes, marketed as Rembrandt notes, were created by ABN Amro, rated AAA by Standard & Poor's and distributed by LGFS. Jagot said a reasonably competent ratings agency could not have rated the product ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... both domestically and overseas - appears to be exaggerating the impact of the race." Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US's AAA credit rating sparked a global stock market sell-off in August 2011. Another danger is that the announcement of further quantitative ...

SelectingSuper 2012 awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... he said. Award winners will be selected from more than 120 eligible funds and products that have achieved a SelectingSuper AAA quality assessment by Rainmaker, including those that have only recently made the grade. The awards are proudly sponsored by ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... the challenges that faced the market last year - Arab Spring, Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster, USA no longer AAA, European crisis hitting Spain and Italy, the BRICs and emerging countries instituting tighter policies to rein in inflation. ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... they were unfazed by the 21% dive in Burberry scripts nor Moody's threat to lower America's rating "probably to Aa1" from Aaa if budget negotiations fail to "lead to specific policies that produce a stabilization and then downward trend in the ratio ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... 0.8% -- someone (I again refuse to name names) warned us that, "With a government forced to return to surplus to maintain its AAA rating and thus reduce stimulus spending, credit growth running at 35-year lows and decelerating, a slowdown and likely ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... more than America's (in US$ terms so we don't compare apples with oranges) so far this year - up 10.1%. Why not? Australia is AAA-rated while the US only has two A's. Australia has a lower budget deficit. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts ...