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Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... 7.8 per cent in December from a year ago. Maybe not. While the global financial crisis could be considered a once-in-a-century event, the swiftness and scale of the policy responses by fiscal and monetary authorities around the world are also unprecedented. ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... The Bank of Canada cut interest rates by 75 basis points last night, taking its benchmark lending rate down to a half century low of 1.5 per cent as it tries to forestall a recession in its own economy. The economic environment is likely to get worse ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... weekend plans for the largest US public works spending program since the creation of the interstate highway system a half-century ago. That could bolster the economy by putting thousands of people to work building schools and other construction projects. ...

Responsible investments still in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... social and governance research helps us to draw a more accurate picture of what's really driving company value in the 21st century. This is reflected in the eight percent growth of those that have integrated ESG into mainstream investment processes and ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... over-borrowing and excessive spending. However, the US government should beware the Riccardian equivalence. Nineteenth century political economist, David Riccardo, theorised that government spending might have no effect on the economy in the long-run. ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... business activity will drop. In short, expect further downside for corporate profits and equity prices. This 'once-in-a-century' event has provided us with the very tangible and expensive lesson on extreme greed and fear. The problem is that the US government ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
'This is a once in a half century, probably once in a century type of event.' (Alan Greenspan). Are we headed for a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s? This might sound too alarmist but indeed, quite a possibility as one giant US financial ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... handpicked from around the world. "As we've said in our fund material before, we think the MSCI World index is a 20th century index while our fund is focused on 21st century investing which means we don't differentiate stocks based on being in developed ...

Planners must alter proposition: Murray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... Speaking at an MLC Investment Forum yesterday, Murray said financial planners should update their businesses to the "21st century value proposition", which focussed on managing client behaviour, instead of chasing short term returns and attempting to ...

OFG banks on bonds and property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... acquisition in specialist unlisted property trust manager Eclipse Property Group, along with OFG's 100 per cent owned subsidiary Century Funds Management will increase the company's FUM to $930 million. In the coming year, Century Funds Management will ...