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A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
"Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head, ah-huh-huh-huh" - The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Recession worries, it seems, travel fast. After doing a tour of the USA, they are now doing the rounds ...

Perpetual downgraded as FUM redistributed

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
The Sevior storm continues after Standard & Poor's downgraded Perpetual's Wholesale Concentrated Equity Fund to four stars due to the fund manager's absence, with the ratings house noting shifts in several institutional investor funds. S&P has attributed ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
What a drama 'ey? You know what I'm talking about. The drama that is the 'off-again-on-again' deal on the US debt ceiling and the 'it'll be bailed, no it won't' Greek tragedy. Yes, those ones. The ones that sent risk assets up, then down, then up again ...

Deal or no deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
Most of you would have noticed lately that financial markets have been playing the "deal or no deal" game. Investors "boo" every time either the US or Europe says 'no deal' and they applause, clap their hands and stomp their feet when either one shouts ...

Perpetual transitions team around Sevior

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
Soon-to-depart star fund manager, John Sevior, may not return to his original role but instead could explore new boutique fund options within the Perpetual organisation, upon his anticipated return from long service leave. Sevior, who manages 33% of ...

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
Fundamental indexing, when fund managers pick stocks based on market indicators other than market capitalisation, is just a disguised form of active management, said Gus Sauter, chief investment officer at Vanguard. While traditional indexing assigns ...

Mason Stevens launches leveraged product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
Mason Stevens has launched a new capital protected structured product that allows investors to walk away from under-performing stocks. In conjunction with UBS, Mason Stevens has developed the Equity Insulator Instalment, which will be available to investors ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Rising inflation. Sagging earnings. Sliding oil price. They were the culprits! They sucker punched Wall Street down to its knees while we were sleeping. No Virginia, not again. Don't tell me that just days after the "no one can deny" good news brought ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Want a growth stock, a real growth stock? Look no further than our very own Australian dollar. After hitting parity with the once mighty greenback back in October last year, it drowned when this year's floods devastated most of Queensland, parts of ...

Opposition slams opt-in policy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Senator Mathias Cormann has described the government's proposed opt-in policy as 'fundamentally flawed'. Speaking to delegates on the final day of the SPAA conference in Brisbane, Cormann said that the opposition does not ...