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Almost Per-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... significant sign of reversal nonetheless. As home prices continue grow healthier, homeowners would start feeling wealthier. "I feel lucky punk!" Ultra low interest rates, government hand outs, regenerating wealth - through rising equities and emerging ...

Wait no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Death by a thousand cuts. Or more accurately -- death by a thousand rebounds. This must be what the bears are feeling each time equities bounce back from a fall. Equity markets are volatile even in the best of times. That is a certitude. For each and ...

Sweet and sour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
Shanghaied! This is what those "nervy nellies" might be feeling after seeing Chinese equities rebound more sharply just as fast and by more as it has fallen. China's Shanghai Composite Index jumped by 4.5 per cent yesterday (sweet), erasing the previous ...

I feel your pain, literally

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... influence the financial decisions that people make. He found out that certain pleasure centres in the brain light up when people feel like they belong ("herd mentality") and when they make choices that deliver over the short-term instead of the long ...

It's coming true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
"Such a feelin's comin over me There is wonder in most everything I see Not a cloud in the sky Got the sun in my eyes" (Carpenters) Wall Street snubbed what was broadly a bad news day and instead merrily hummed, "Everything I want the world to be, is ...

Aviva names SMA model managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... distribution manager of investment products at the firm. "I started a round of meetings in Sydney almost two years ago to just get a feel for SMAs across fund managers," he said. "I was quite surprised that on one end of the spectrum you had, no way ...

ABCs of super still confusing: Suncorp

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... strategy to help members better understand super, starting with a new communications guide for internal staff and a new look and feel to at least 100 types of letters it sends to members each year.

We're feeling better, said Aussie investors

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Returns have improved, the economy is perking up and investors are happier - new figures from ING show that local investor sentiment is up 82 per cent from the previous quarter. According to the latest ING Investor Dashboard Survey, investor sentiment ...

Positive surprise beats Meredith's surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... every other in recent months - could be used as fodder for either the bear or the bull case. But markets felt good from the feel good factor from the good Goldman and Johnson earnings. At the end of the day Virginia, we are slowly but surely leaving ...

Dixon criticises Premium buy-back scheme

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... taking a strong line on this issue because a number of its clients are invested in the listed investment company. "So we feel it's in their best interest that the share price trades as close as possible to NTA so they can enter and exit when they want ...