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Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... blogs trying to give meaning to Wall Street's slip overnight, you're now probably getting antsy pantsy that the bad ol' times have returned. This from The Age quoting "AAP, with Business Day": "US stocks made back almost all their earlier losses and ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... prolonged the Great Depression. This is not lost on the International Monetary Fund. In an interview with The Financial Times, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "There is clearly the idea beginning to circulate that currencies can be used ...

More US investment banks close prop desks

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... legislation, and the indirect result could be new investment opportunities for Australian super funds. Shortly after the New York Times revealed that JPMorgan was moving its proprietary trading desks to a unit within its asset management division, Bank ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... deal with gold then? Last time I looked, gold was flirting with the US$1,300 an ounce mark. Isn't gold good only during times of rising inflation and/or market turmoil? Runaway inflation in the late 1970s sent gold prices soaring by 547 per cent from ...

Industry assoc review goals and growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... cultural and historical issues, and there's a strong connection between association and members. It gets a bit tribal at times. "The key message from Canberra is around unity and consistency of message and obviously that means aligning together on areas ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... are hiring - that Australians are becoming more confident in taking on debt? Ahhh, debt - that lonely, unloved word of the times. While many a developed country has been sunk and continues to sink because of debt, Australia is happily trekking along. ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... as soon as November." Huh? Where in the FOMC statement did it say that? "The Fed said yesterday for the first time" ? Huh times two? This was not the first time the Fed referred to "slowing inflation and sluggish growth". It did so when it released its ...

SG Hiscock wins $500 million AREIT mandate from Challenger

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... in itself is not a daunting task but very pleasing given the challenges the AREIT sector has been going through in recent times" Stephen Hiscock, chairman of SG Hiscock & Company, told Financial Standard. The funds in question are the Challenger Premier ...

Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... Morgan Stanley, which achieved a score of 2.273, which meant its analysts got stock calls "wrong" more than seven out of 10 times. In turn, Kiernan is calling for investors to incorporate "SAI" or strategically aware investing - strategies that embed ...

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... that it will be up to the individual nation's own prerogative to raise the reserves, with a maximum of 2.5 percent in boom times. All recommendations made must be ratified by the G-20 nations this year with a deadline of January 1m 2013 set for member ...