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The disappearing act of lose-lose funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
Fund managers and super funds are responding to the 'credibility gap' in the wake of the GFC with major reforms to the way they structure fees, create products and meet their fiduciary duties, research found. This week, UK-based CREATE-Research released ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... same as they always were for several months now. There's the good, the bad and the rumours. In essence, all confirm a bull market, all confirm a bear market and all confirm a consolidation. The good: US industrial production increased by 1.2 per cent ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
Bohh...ring! And I woke up early for this! There were some after-party celebrations to the bull market's one-year anniversary - but only just. Wall Street closed higher -- Dow up 0.03 per cent, S&P 500 up 0.5 per cent and Nasdaq up 0.8 per cent. As ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Guess what? It's the bull market's first anniversary today! Hip..hip... Hooray Virgina! You and I have kept up the faith despite being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street ...

Investors back structured prod investments

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
Self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees and financial planning clients are snapping up structured products that provide exposure to local and Asian markets, with one provider of the products gaining more than $100 million in just 18 months. Instreet's ...

The long and short of bulls and bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... time a recession or a market crash ensue, central banks and governments intervene. The same is happening now. The bull market will continue while the stimulus packages are still here or until excess becomes excessive. D.R. Beare. Might have some momentum ...

Capital protection should be core to satellite

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... founder of Alpha Structured Investments, designed financial products with capital protection in 2005, a time when the bull market would have made paying a premium for the feature sound silly. But Rumble's clients, mainly high net worth investors and ...

Recession over! Sigh!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... reasons cited for this. But who could say for sure that this would not change in an instant? The same way that the bull market turned into a spectacular crash with the flick of Lehmann? A V is very much still plausible. This is because the current recession ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... would be in. Reminds me of another star analyst, Abbey Joseph Cohen, of Goldman Sachs who rose to fame during the bull market leading up to the dotcom bust. Her star burnt out after persisting on her bullish views as the dotcoms were crashing in early ...

US planners prefer fee model: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... risen. Average earnings increased almost $25,000 to $270,000 compared to 2008 numbers. This is still a far cry from the bull market days with the average earnings topping $291,000 in 2006 and $355,000 in 2007. While salaries steadily start to rise so ...