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Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... are 1500 possible choices in the MSCI World Index. Favourite stocks included Roche, which appeared in seven portfolios, tobacco maker Phillip Morris International, Nestle, Pfizer, Vodafone, Apple, Google, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson and Wells ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... ceiling of 4.0 per cent in Jan. The core inflation measure - that is, excluding the costs of energy, alcohol, food and tobacco - also accelerated to an annual rate of 3.4 per cent in Feb from 3.0 per cent a month prior. The British Statistician also ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
"Danger, Will Robinson!" Lost in Space's Robot B9 is back, warning of danger, danger... everywhere. Danger in Europe, Will Robinson. The a,-85 billion band-aid given to Ireland has failed to stop its haemorrhage. Irish 10-year bond yields have climbed ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Retiree living costs fall despite CPI jump

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... cent increase in the All Groups CPI, although the latter figure was affected by a 15.4 per cent increase in the cost of tobacco. For recreation, there was a fall of 1.8 per cent in the quarter, the largest quarterly drop since the CPI series began in ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... an affront to productivity and others call a filthy habit could be the answer to Japan's weakening economy. There's a tobacco rush happening in Japan. The country's smokers are hoarding as many cartons of the "good stuff" (for us smokers, at least) as ...

Doing good pays off for Christian Super

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... Murphy said. "Members, who feel passionate about the effects of climate change, the impact of harmful industries such as tobacco and gambling or managing resources sustainably, want to know that their super fund shares their beliefs. RI gives them a ...

Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... to save an additional 15 billion this year and the next. Now go ahead! Try and compare these with, say, the increase in tobacco tax or the reduction in the Australian government's superannuation co-contribution scheme. Go ahead! You're smiling now aren't ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... too much ado about Greece, and Portugal, and Spain, and... Smokin'! What worries me more is the 25 per cent increase in tobacco tax by Krudd and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) poised to pull the interest rate trigger again next week. Oh well... ...

Vice fund underperforms S&P 500 by 13pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
Tobacco, alcohol and gaming sounds like a rock star life but investors in a fund that targets these industries aren't exactly crowd surfing their way to financial bliss. The US-based Vice fund identified stocks across tobacco, alcohol, gaming and aerospace/defense ...