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Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... deficit. If not banks would not be foreclosing on sub-prime borrowers. Debt repayment signals that institutions are healthy enough to stand without government crutch. It signals that the financial system is heading towards normalcy. The US$68 billion ...

UK DB plans must shape up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... which are generally held every three to six months. "Most pension governance arrangements are unable to respond quickly enough to changing economic conditions so schemes often fail to lock in favourable movements in the market," said Bruce Rigby, chief ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... and diminish the attraction of equity investing. This is because at some point, risk-free interest rates would be high enough that investors would switch out of their riskier stock market holdings. The converse is true when interest rates are falling. ...

Take your pick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... that 74 per cent of economists agreeing that the America's recession would be all over by the third quarter of 2009. Not enough? Read the National Association of Realtors' (NAR) report that showed US existing home sales rose by 2.9 per cent in April ...

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... encouraging investors to make a comeback. This is the main reason why Standard & Poor's gauged that the market is strong enough to weather its UK downgrade warning and why the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) moved forward its lifting ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... then Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, was even contemplating of ditching the country's bond market - we have more than enough, we don't need to borrow, we will have surpluses as far as the eye can see! The recession we had to have...again. There is ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... cent this year, rising to an average of 10.3 per cent in 2010. This begs the question of whether this scenario is gloomy enough. Unfortunately we only have history to guide us with this. No one could deny that the worst economic contraction in the US ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... set of numbers indeed...if it was true. This seemed to be the consensus reaction to the ABS job numbers. Most were happy enough and reported without question the previous month's labour tally showing that the unemployment rate jumped to 5.7 per cent ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... fail...well, you know what happens. Wall Street heads down. The way. The triad moved the date of the announcement of 'do I have enough capital' exam from 4 May to 7 May. Nothing wrong with that. What is clever is that along the way, they have gradually ...

Mercer wins NGS Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... administration and member services in July 2008. "In uncertain times like these, many funds are finding they don't have enough resources or expertise to meet all of their members' needs, they have to find the most viable option to achieve higher levels ...