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Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... strategy, said that investors should tap into mega-trends that will drive stocks up as consumers adjust to a post-bull market lifestyle. In the past, consumers "traded up", buying luxury goods, expensive cars and bigger houses. In a recession, the trend ...

Ignore history at your peril

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... which will be a detriment to their ability to properly steer investors through today's crisis. "I think 30 years of a bull market has left [financial history] at the bottom of interesting things to study. "Financial history, and by that I mean the history ...

HFA regains Lonsec rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... the same index that lost over 46 per cent. "The ability to maximise returns in line with overall markets during a bull market while preserving capital during the tough times is at the heart of absolute return investing," said Oscar Martinis, HFA Asset ...

Ausbil, Eley and Patriot top review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
Financial planners seeking to add more client funds to the Australian small and mid cap sector should look no further than Ausbil Dexia, Eley Griffiths Group and Patriot Asset Management according to a Zenith Investment Partners sector review. The Ausbil ...

Henderson Maxwell moves to managed accounts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... the client and to the practice." He said the set-and-forget investment strategy, which many advisers used during the bull market is no longer relevant these days given market volatility where some shares can fall as much as 70 per cent in three days. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... world on Monday on tentative hopes of economic recovery in the United States, but analysts warned that the upbeat bull market was likely to be short-lived. London's FTSE 100 index gained 110.31, or 2.94 per cent, to 3,863.99 points. FRANKFURT - The Dax ...

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... generation, this expectations bias had been clearly demonstrated in the dotcom bubble and the pre-sub-prime equity bull market. Expectations of higher prices led to speculation of even higher prices. Rising prices validate expectations and feeds further ...

Private equity crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... an industry conference what many already know but fear to say: the flurry of private equity deals signed during the bull market are now potentially worth a fraction of what they were. Peter Laib, managing director of Adveq, said that the revaluation ...

Depression no more?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... credit markets to be fully functioning again, it will take time for anxiety to go away and for equities to resume the bull market of late. During the 1930's Depression, the Dow's one-day 14.9 per cent jump to 99.34 points on 6 October 1931 was followed ...

Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... extrapolating rising stockmarket prices into even greater increases in the future, now they project even deeper slumps. The bull market ended, the bubble burst. And so will this financial panic. A turning point will be reached. Given the massive dumping ...