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Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
What a difference a week makes. Yes, yes, yo Virginia, in just seven winks, financial market sentiment went from "shiver me timbers, the sky is falling" to hapeee. Don't believe me? Here's Bloomberg's take last 15 October in its report headed, "World ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street recovered early losses to trade in positive territory. At 0810 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 14 points at 5,320. Locally, in economic news on ...

AustralianSuper to double size of in-house investment team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
The largest super fund in the country, AustralianSuper, plans to double the size of its in-house investment team by 2015, setting a fresh template on how mega-super funds in the future could start managing their multibillion-dollar portfolios. Over ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Just when I was about to ditch Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down" as the equity market's 2014 anthem... the central bankers came and (re)played it all again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
"Dead cat bounce" andA "Catch a falling knife." These phrases have crept back into financial market vernacular lately. We read and hear about these phrases mostly during phases when the financial markets are in a state of flux and/or heightened volatility ...

Smileys Scholarship applications close tomorrow

STAFF REPORTER  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Calling all financial advisers - this is your chance to be a guest editor or have your practice profiled in our FS Advice magazine - online submissions for our social media scholarship take less than 15 minutes but you need to beat tomorrow's deadline. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Australian shares looks set to open lower following substantial falls on international markets as investors take fright at new US data underscoring the fragile state of the global economy. At 0805 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures ...

AFA questions ASIC life report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
AFA chief executive Brad Fox raised concerns over the methodology of Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) report on life insurance advice that was released last week. He told the media that there were questions over the methology ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... according to plan. However, if financial markets continue to go into reverse, let alone head for a crash -- October being October - before the FOMC meets in a forthnight's time, the Fed might initiate Plan B - un-taper and re-reflate. The 64 million ...