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May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
What UK Prime Minister Theresa May expected as a landslide win at the snap 8 June general elections turned out to be a slide at the polls for the Conservatives instead. The British prime minister intended to secure her Brexit mandate when she announced ...

"Shunned" investment strategy generating massive returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
Active, value investment managers overlooking critical market anomalies are missing out on potential returns of up to 40%, according to PM Capital. One opportunity that is not well-known and is even "shunned" by some investment managers are long-term ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
The S&P 500 index notched another fresh record high overnight - up by 0.3% to 2,404.39 points - and the VIX index dropped to a reading of 10.02 - the market has never been this fearless in more than 23 years (January 1994 when the index read 9.94) - ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
No news, it appears, is good news for Japan. The country's stock market and the yen have been heading in the right direction ever since the nuclear threat tit-for-tat between the US and North Korea was taken off the headlines. The Nikkei-225 index has ...

Financial advisers should consider bitcoin as an asset class: Dunworth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
There is no better way to understand blockchain technology than to invest in bitcoins, a digital currency that has outperformed traditional currencies in recent years, according to an industry expert. This week the cryptocurrency broke record-highs ...

BetaShares expands to Victoria

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
BetaShares is celebrating its $4 billion milestone with the creation of a new role and establishment of a new office. In support of its continued growth, BetaShares has appointed a national manager, adviser services to be based in the business' new ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
With friends like these, who needs Kim Jong-un! Just when the drumbeats of war - the nuclear kind - have recently been withdrawing from the headlines, US president Donald Trump could be starting another, a trade war. Sure, Trump's protectionist' policy ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
"I think this is something - it certainly was an interesting period of time. We all learned a lot. We learned a lot about loyalty. We learned a lot about the vote-getting process. We learned a lot about some very arcane rules in, obviously, both the ...

Standard Life marks Australian real estate as top performer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
Global asset manager Standard Life Investments says Australia is forecast to be the top-performing commercial real estate market in Asia Pacific. Sydney and Melbourne office spaces are tipped to be the winners "given a resilient Australian economy ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Don't you just love it when things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell ...