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Super funds out-perform TDs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... month Australian equity returns are now 5% and international equity returns are 12%, representing a meteoric reversal in fortune in just the two performance months since June when super funds were averaging 0.5%. Three year returns are meanwhile 4.2% ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... bailout? The answer is crucial for investors but is in conflict with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's political fortune and his less than 10-month old government. This is because it's only after Spain formally requests a bailout that the ECB could ...

China slowdown hits rich list

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... textiles and retail sectors. Wahaha Group drinks tycoon Zong Qinghou regained the top spot he held in 2010 with a personal fortune of $12.6 billion. The average wealth of the Top 1000 is down 9% to US$860 million despite entertainment, IT, natural gas ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
Pa-lease stop with these nudge, nudge, wink, wink already -- and ease up on the promises and pledges while you're at it. No, I speak not to you Virginia, but it is to Ben and Mario I direct my displeasure. I've been watching the markets for decades ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Stop right there. If you believe that last night's reversal of fortune on Wall Street was really, truly because of "improved data on the US housing market" as the Australian Financial Review puts it or "as Home Data Tempers Economic Concern," as per ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
"Here comes that rainy day feeling again, and soon my tears will be falling like rain..." (The Fortunes) Looks like I have to prefix my surname with the letters W and R for while I correctly anticipated that heightened volatility in the financial markets ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... wheels of the virtuous cycle continue to turn as we expect, pretty soon even this caveat would be no more and the wheel of fortune will keep on turning.

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... time to exit stage left while the going is still going or just to keep on going in anticipation of picking even greater fortune? Can't blame those thinking of exiting the market for shares now and protecting what they've accumulated to date. The S&P ...

Smackdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
Hey, hey, something doesn't look quite right here. The Dow's reclaimed 13K and most equity markets in Europe ended on the up and up while we were sleeping. They shouldn't be doing that. Haven't they heard that Standard & Poor's just downgraded Greek ...

Problem solved, not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
Anti-climax? Selling on news, perhaps? Whatever it is, European equity markets and Wall Street looked like they weren't impressed by reports that the deal has been done. It's been signed, sealed, though yet to de delivered. To be sure, the Dow had a ...