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Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... rising inflation, rising interest rates, housing and stock market bubbles, Kevin's more than normal overseas trips, etc. With luck and good management, the economy downunder would remain up and over the OECD league as the world meanders its way out of ...

Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Most Australians by now would be suffering from Budget diarrhea. For there is no escape...everywhere you turn, it's Budget 2009 - the second for the Rudd Government and the first in contemporary Australian history of a tough one. Those were the days. ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
You've been warned, Australia! Standard & Poor's and Moody's threatened Australia with a downgrade in its sovereign risk rating if the National Budget remains in deficit over the medium term. My, oh my, I am so scared. And so we all should be. Because ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
What a week...what a wonderful week! Most equity markets - from New York to Rio and Old London town - greeted the early buds of the Northern Hemisphere Spring with spring on their steps. Wall Street - as many others - marked their fourth straight week ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... celebrate this day by wearing green dress and drink green beer. Green, after all, is the colour of money (the US dollar). Luck of the Irish. Think it was more than this for last night there was tangible US data showing that the housing sector might -- ...

Reverse core satellite approach: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Financial planners should consider reversing the traditional approach to core-satellite investment strategy and adopt an "active" core and "passive" satellite tactic in bad markets, according to van Eyk. Stephen van Eyk, van Eyk Research managing director ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

Aviva prepares for equity investment surge

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Investors can start preparing for the upswing in the local equity market after Aviva launched a dollar cost averaging tool which allows them to gradually move some of their cash investments into other asset classes. The Progressive Switching Facility ...

Oil up, equities down: Feng Shui Index

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... astrology and geography to promote prosperity. It's more commonly seen in arranging objects such as furniture to promote good luck. CLSA first launched the Feng Shui Index in 1992 in the form of a Christmas card to clients but its popularity grew and ...