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Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Go ahead punks, make my day! Did Russian President Vladimir Putin just give the G7 a two-handed one finger salute? This is if latest reports are true that Russia has given Ukraine's military forces in Crimea to surrender or face an all out assault ...

AIA hoping to increase engagement through fitness

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
AIA Australia is hoping to increase Australians' engagement with the insurance industry through fitness and has started a pilot program that will fully launch in early 2014. The AIA Vitality program is a joint venture between the group insurer and South ...

Down, down, A$ stay down (please?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013

That stupid war again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013

Trick or treat?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
We're back on the taper-go-round saddle Virginia. Would the Fed allow the green shoots of a December taper to grow roots - and again permeate to every nook and cranny of economics and finance -- and then treat us with a taper not as it did in September? ...

Super funds hungry for global equities specialists

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
Global equity funds would do well to exploit the growing interest in global equities from superannuation funds and other institutional investors, according to Lars Wincentsen, portfolio manager at Danish global equity fund Carnegie Asset Management. ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
This is it...it's all systems go! There's only one conclusion that can be concluded from the upward revision in second quarter US real GDP growth - up at annualised rate of 2.5% from the prelim 1.7% estimate - and Wall Street's positive reaction to ...

OneVue beefs up team ahead of SMSF service launch

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
Investment platform OneVue has strengthened its team in multiple areas ahead of the launch a self-managed super funds (SMSF) service. OneVue chief executive of strategic relationships Brett Marsh said that the firm planned to release the new SMSF services ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel the suspense building up to a crescendo? The FOMC starts their two-day policy meeting tonight and then finally...we might get closure on the taper thing. We could speculate about the indications ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Dive! Dive! Dive! You've heard the news - our very own currency is top of the pops no more, it's made one hell of celebrity splash over the past week as it fell below parity against the big dollar and continued to head down ...