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Bear market end in sight: AMP Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... secular bear market may be coming to an end, according to AMP Capital's Shane Oliver. Since the galling crash of the dotcom bubble in the summer of 2000, the stock market has struggled to provide investors with any predictable returns. Investors dined ...

Bubble forming in dividend stocks: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... Telstra have enjoyed strong performance in the last year, the strategist warns that income stocks are in danger of forming a bubble. "As greater numbers seek safety in purchasing perceived stable cash flows at progressively higher prices, they will necessarily ...

Emerging market bubbles present opportunity: Tyndall

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
While there will be frequent bubbles in emerging markets, presently the global flight from risk has created an attractive buying opportunity for long-term investors, according to Tyndall Asset Management. Speaking at a media briefing to mark the fourth ...

Huge opportunity is higher risk recovery stocks: Southeastern

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... Management. The US-based asset manager's chief executive Mason Hawkins said the flight from risk assets amounted to a 'safety-bubble' and represented the best opportunity in certain industry leading companies since the tech bubble of the late 1990s. ...

Push... pussshh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012

ANZ to chase more China assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... fundamental weakness in the balance sheets of many Chinese banks," he said. "There's huge over-development and a threat of a bubble emerging and that could create a huge opportunity for the Australian banking sector." Despite a more sanguine result for ...

Good US housing news is real good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... shadow of the 2,273,000 units pre-Great Recession peak witnessed in July 2006. But I think, we all agree that that level was bubble level. My back of the envelope calculation shows that the long-term average of housing starts is around the 1,400,000 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... the year to September. Spain has been in recession since late 2011, its second downturn since the bursting of a property bubble in 2008 that destroyed millions of jobs and left the banking sector strewn with bad loans. HONG KONG - Asian markets were ...

Income-seeking investors returning to secured credit

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... of some secured credit investments. He reminds investors that during the GFC - spurred by the bursting of the US housing bubble and liquidity squeeze - over 75% of investors in asset-backed securities were highly leveraged - with no requirement to hold ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... Stewart, Rachel Hunter, once said, it won't happen overnight but it will happen. The same thing as the bust in US Treasuries bubble will. ================== You can read Ben Ong's monthly economic insight, review and analysis through his subscriber-only ...