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Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
Yippee ka yay! Nothing like a good dose of the good stuff to make one forget the bad, doesn't it? Nah, I'm not taking the "stuff" that I think you think I'm taking. I refer to the eco updates released out of America last night. They were all better ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Have you seen this morning's headline on theage.com.au? "'Ugliest' of times ahead." It's all about the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that ...

Omega bond launch timed for asset allocation shift

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
Omega Global Investors launches a new bond fund tomorrow, positioning itself to benefit from an expected shift from equities to fixed interest in the institutional and retail market. The fund is being seeded with $200 million and will offer investors ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
Next stop: Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Lucky we're just a few hours away from the main event for I don't think I could take the suspense much longer. All eyes - or should I say, all ears - will be on US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke from the very ...

New tool launched to gear SMSFs into property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... significant strategy for a lot of people as the $25,000 per year for however many years adds up to about $500,000 - and good luck retiring on that," he said. Morgan said as a result SMSF trustees were moving to gear into property and produced figures ...

Cost of living outpacing retirement incomes

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... price of food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals although retirees looking to purchase audio-visual and computing equipment were in luck with costs falling. Food, health, transportation and recreation made up the largest spending costs for retirees. For the ...

Two new appointments as Equiti fund closes in on first US property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
Wealth management group Equiti Private Wealth has made two new executive appointments. Former Centre Capital director Robert Coyte has taken over as head of advisory in the financial planning services side of the business, where he will expand the role. ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
Let's cut to the chase and get straight to the point - the US employment report most of us have waited for all week was plain and simply U-G-L-Y ugly. There's no ifs, no ands and definitely no buts. Ugly, ugly, ugly. That's just what it is! Although ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
Now you see? Investors really do see what they want to see. Oh yes Virginia, the drip, drip, drip of economic reports and other news twittered, facebooked and blogged all over cyberspace were enough to send any bear to bear utopia - but they didn't. ...

UniSuper chair to retire

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
University superannuation fund UniSuper is to appoint director Chris Cuffe as chairman when Elizabeth Bryan steps down from the role at the end of June. Cuffe was a former chief executive of Colonial First State Investments and Challenger Financial ...