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Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... happening in Greece and Portugal and Ireland and Spain serves a warning to other highly indebted countries. This is where the classic phrase, "caught between a rock and hard place" distinctly applies. Rock. Stop government spending support and the economy ...

Blue chips back in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... manager with Fidelity's Australianequities team, said 2010 will favour prudent investors as the market turns back to "classic investing" strategies. There is still "good money" to be earned by investing in cyclicals, but the selldown in blue chips last ...

APRA launches data revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... 61st place with a five year ROR of 9.3 per cent. Perpetual Investor Choice came in at 63rd place with 9.2 per cent and BT Classic Lifetime came in at 65th place on the same result.

S&P rates former CS funds 'four stars'

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... placed 'on hold' by Standard & Poor's after Aberdeen Asset Management bought the funds. The rating includes the Aberdeen Classic Series International Equities fund, Aberdeen Actively Hedged International Equities fund and the Aberdeen Select Inv Actively ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... otherwise gloomy Friday. "The sentiment leading into this morning wasn't all that great," Mr Taylor told AAP. "It's quite a classic morning really: money is flowing away from the riskier stocks, and into safer things like gold." Three of the four major ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
The Australian share market had surged over two per cent by noon with the big miners and the banking sector helping to buoy the market. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 77.3 points, or 2.07 per cent, at 3812.9, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

One in six DB funds in trouble: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... across asset classes as well as contributing employers and the decline in the discount rates used to value liabilities, a classic solvency squeeze has eventuated," he explained Because DB funds generally offer benefits that require higher contributions ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... 500 up more than 32 per cent above its 9 March low and the Dow more than 27 per cent higher. Hold on...isn't this the classic definition of a bull market? A bull market is generally defined as when stock prices rise 20 per cent from their lows. A bear ...

We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
'Can I just add my voice to this. I think the prime minister is incredibly, is A-plus on these issues. If we did what he advises, we'll all be in a better place.' Malcolm, eat your heart out. This was US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner patting the ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... emergency fiscal package the government announced last month. Isn't this what the budget surplus supposed to do? This is classic 'saving for a rainy day' in action. And today it is pouring. Australian equity investors should also take heart from the ...