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Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... Ben Bernanke's Semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress contained 19 paragraphs and 2,419 words. How and why on earth did financial markets zero in on these six words. The answer maybe as plain as Paul Briggs' reason for taking a dive. And ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
The Australian share market is likely to open higher as the second-quarter earnings season in the US got off to a positive start. After Wall Street closed marginally higher, aluminum maker Alcoa beat analysts' expectations and raised its forecast for ...

Wealth transfer strategies top adviser books

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
The type of financial planners that will 'inherit the earth' are those with the best wealth transfer strategies to recommend to clients, research shows. Latest data from the Lifeplan Financial Advice Satisfaction Index show that 61.6 per cent of 400 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
The Australian share market is likely to open slightly lower on Tuesday after Wall Street closed flat amid positive corporate reports but weaker financial stocks. At 0752 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 10 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in positive territory following strong leads from Wall Street and major world markets overnight. At 0823 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 24 points higher at ...

NZ Super appoints Elementum Advisors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation have appointed Elementum Advisors to manage a $140 million portfolio of catastrophe-linked securities. The initial size of the mandate will be $140 million million with potential to increase to $282 million. ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Credit Suisse Investments hopes to fill the local investment gap for alternative asset classes that are genuinely uncorrelated to domestic equities - a move that ends in "catastrophe". Filo Sedillo, the local managing director in alternative investments ...

Mmm...bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... US Treasury Geithner saying that, it is "very important to reinforce the progress we are seeing." This is what the band Earth, Wind & Fire had to say about September: "Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... of it being too late? Perhaps. But as long as inflation doesn't become hyper, it is much easier to bring it back down to earth than battling falling prices. Did somebody mention Japan? The question is when will the second dip occur? Next month? Then ...

Don't let the bears out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009