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Paul does it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Flatline. That's what you'll see when you look at Wall Street's pulse monitor this morning. I would be too if faced with the same old, same old daily boring stuff that financial market agents look at everyday. While we were sleeping, a raft of economic ...

Tide turns in industry vs retail fund performance

APRA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
The latest APRA superannuation performance figures suggest a reversal of fortunes in super land, with retail funds returning nearly 21 per cent over the year to March, ahead of industry funds' 16 per cent. Prudential watchdog APRA released its latest ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... must not underestimate the threat of the uneven pace of global recovery and financial market volatility on its economic fortune. And when in doubt, what's a central bank to do? The RBA's best bet is to do nothing...nada...zilch until the dust settles. ...

RIP May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
It's a wrap! Once again, the age-old adage "sell in May then go away" re-asserted itself in 2010. It may be the "Year of the Tiger" in the Chinese calendar but for financial markets May is easily the "Month of the PIGS". With only one trading day to ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
... disappear when their census-taking service is finished. It is truly difficult - rather stupid - to pin one's hopes and fortune on just one number from one economic data. Harder still when positive expectations are already being rationalised negatively ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... looked at, like REST, which has a very, very large membership, with casuals, it's actually costing a fund an absolute fortune to administer those members [with less than $1,000]," he said. "Across all Workplace Super funds, according to the latest Rainmaker ...

Cloud computing still a foggy idea

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... between the users and the application servers. F5 Networks is a NASDAQ-listed company that helps major businesses (e.g. Fortune 500) manage their application, server, storage and network resources by streamlining application delivery and cutting relevant ...

Beware the leveraged ETF

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
Australian exchange traded funds investors should learn from their US counterparts who have lost their fortunes trading leveraged ETFs - products that could one day hit Australian shores. Michael Krause, president of ETF research house AltaVista Research ...

The dragon stumbles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
What's this? Wall Street dipped because China's stock market tumbled and commodity prices slumped? Here's Bloomberg's leader, "U.S. stocks fell for a second day as plunging Chinese shares and commodities stoked speculation that the surge in equities ...