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Taper to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013

Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
It's a wonderful set of numbers. Well...errr, it depends.A It depends whether you're an Abbott supporter or anti-Rudd crusader.A Whoops!A That means the same thing. Nah! That's not a Freudian slip.A I'm still deciding whether to go with the Australian ...

Trophy infrastructure assets too expensive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... recently defended the price it paid for a stake in Perth Airport and dismissed concerns that infrastructure assets are in bubble territory. Future Fund chief investment officer David Neal said: "We are not in bubble territory. The market doesn't feel ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... past. To this day, it appears that all we get are ever-escalating property prices (and rents) from low interest rates.A Bubble, bubble?A Are we gonna be in trouble? How low would interest rates have to be before it supports not only interest rate sensitive ...

Investors demand more clarity on carbon exposures

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... want to know their high carbon exposures, what the funds are doing to prevent investment portfolio damage once the carbon bubble bursts and whether or not their fund is more or less emissions intensive than another. "The investor groups do some positive ...

Balanced funds ill-suited for fixed income blow-up

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... says that investors need to be reviewing their asset allocation now to best position themselves for the end of the bond bubble. Fletcher adds that it's no good simply ditching fixed income assets from portfolios because bonds and credit instruments are ...

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... Lou added that, "We don't think 6.5% or 7.0% will be a big problem". Certainly! Better to stop blowing up a speculative bubble now than suffer the consequences of the pop later. Cause, like that Pringles ad, "once you pop, you can't stop"! Get use to ...

Gold headed to $3k an ounce says ETF pioneer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... than many forecasters realise. Tuckwell, who has built his reputation around the gold ETP, denied that recent highs were a bubble. He said the gold bull market has not ended, because "nothing has actually changed." "The big problem out there is governments ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... bomb waiting to blow." "It is not just a CDO, but a CDO squared. All we have in Australia is, at its simplest, a credit bubble built upon a commodity boom dependent for its sustenance on an even greater credit bubble in China." Ha ha bloody ha ha. This ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...