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Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
The Gremlins are coming back to haunt. Or so it'll seem as you read reports reporting that, once again, we're doomed. Yes Virginia, you'll be scared off your pants to know that the S&P 500 index posted its biggest weekly loss in 2012. It fell an earth-shattering ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... Jobless claims rose by a bigger-than-expected 13,000 to 380K in the week ended 7 April - the highest level since late January -- and the four-week moving average of claims increased to 368.5K, the highest in a month. The good news is that these levels ...

Social media trials in US continue

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney will continue its exploration into social media with a formal program to follow up on its 600 adviser pilot program. In May last year, Morgan Stanley began testing a pilot program to allow its financial advisers to interact ...

Budget tightening to hit IMR

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
Revenue constraints and an unwillingness to concede reductions in the tax base may impact the timing of the Investment Manager Regime. That was the inference made by Treasury official Rob Heferen at the Senate Standing Committee on Economics yesterday. ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Disappointed at yesterday's report that another QE is not forthcoming? Weep and sulk now for we might not see Ben's green stuff minting machine back ever again - in this current cycle, at least. No sir. Especially not after last night's reports further ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
Guess we're no longer BFF (best friends forever) with Ben. No sir, not after he quashed everyone's hopes that QE the third is about to sail. How could you do this to us BFF? It's all over the headlines: "U.S. Stocks Fall as Fed Minutes Damp Stimulus ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... "Ugliest' of times ahead" as it went to town with the World Bank's (WB) latest Global Economic Prospects report - released in January - that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in ...

State Street wins QSuper mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
Queensland government super fund QSuper has appointed institutional investment provider State Street custodian of its $32bn in assets. The appointment follows a six-month tender process that saw State Street replace incumbent provider NAB Asset Servicing ...

All that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
Bernanke, houses and confidence (or the lack of it) sent many on Wall Street clicking on the sell button last night. It was them! They were the ones that sent a many on Wall Street clicking on the sell button last night. It was Bernanke. In an interview ...

NY family office compared to hedge fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
Fairhills Group, a New York family office for Edward Bronson is building its reputation as a hedge fund operator with two recent hires, according to US-based Hedge Fund Alert. The firm has reportedly signed managers for two investment teams designed ...