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Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... "U.S. Stocks Retreat as Energy Shares Decline With Oil" would have you believe. I said it once and I'll say it a thousand times... falling oil prices are not a negative for economic growth - they stimulate it. Lower oil prices reduce the cost of business ...

Bitcoin exchange goes live

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... production environment ready to use to should the need arise. Independent Reserve data is signed and encrypted multiple times using geographically dispersed keys, spread across four data centres and the market utilises cold storage to hold the majority ...

AFA crowns Adviser and Practice of the Year

ALICE URIBE, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... Kewin, "These advisers are the vanguards of their profession and as such will provide crucial leadership during challenging times and will play a pivotal role in creating a more informed, more financially literate community. Zurich is delighted this ...

Fraser and Hewson support ANU's right to divest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... National University's right to divest from companies. The statement appeared as an advertisement in Wednesday's Canberra Times and is expected to appear in The Australian Financial Review on Friday. It is a response to criticism from companies and politicians ...

Real return funds growing in stature

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... category's recent success to the perception by investors that more traditional and constrained multi-asset strategies may at times be less conducive to an ever complex and dynamic investment landscape." While Zenith remains impressed by the degree of ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... offensive and bizarre." Hewson's comments come the day after ANU Vice Chancellor Ian Young wrote an article in the Canberra Times defending the decision to divest from seven resources companies, following intense criticism from the mining sector, politicians ...

RBA should take action on negative gearing: AUI

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... against their rental income each year. Also, 45% of home loans are now going to investors, which represent two and a half times the level of the early 1990s. "Loans for investors used to be evenly split between existing houses and new construction, whereas ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... five days before dropping 16.8% by 3 October 2011. Then again, as the dip buyers have proven - time and again - in recent times it pays to buy the dips... especially when the Fed's on their side. The bigger the dip, the bigger the pay. Time to hunt for ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... hybrids" or "CoCos" (Contingent Convertibles) which were structured to allow banking regulators to convert them into equity in times of crisis, not the older hybrids like ANZPA that are structured more like bonds. This new generation of hybrids include ...