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Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
You kiddin' me? I had to go through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from ...

Barrack St raises $16 million through IPO

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
Manny Pohl's Barrack Street Investments is scheduled to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on August 14 after it raised $16 million through its initial public offer (IPO). The small and mid-cap listed investment company will be managed ...

Pohl's fund receives 'recommended' rating

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Barrack St Investment (BST), the investment company whose portfolio is managed by Manny Pohl's ECP Asset Management, has been given a 'recommended' rating by Independent Investment Research. The rating comes ahead of BST's plan to list on the ASX in ...

Manny Pohl issues prospectus for new retail LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... ECP Asset Management (ECPAM), has released the prospectus for a new small- and mid-cap listed investment company (LIC). Barrack Street Limited is targeting a maximum of $50million, with the LIC aiming to exceed a benchmark return of 8%pa by combining ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
"I was only joking my dear Looking for a way to hide my fear What kind of fool was I I could never win." - Rod Stewart President Putin fought the G7... and the G7 won. At least that's how it appears after Vladimir ordered his Russian troops back to ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... the land of stars and stripes resulted in, well, very much the same as it was the day before the elections. President Barrack Obama remains president. The Democrats control the Senate and the GOP dominates Congress. Yet Wall Street seems to have fallen ...

Markets await promising China leadership change

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... reforms promoting market efficiency and putting an end to fears of a hard landing, according to Threadneedle's Gigi Chan. As Barrack Obama prepares for four more years in office in the US, the world's second largest economy is now preparing itself for ...

Obama victory ignites fiscal cliff fears

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
A political quarrel surrounding the US fiscal cliff looks set to become the focal point for investors after Barrack Obama's narrow victory in the presidential race. President Obama's priority is to secure a budget deal with the US Congress to avoid ...

Reliance on improving global economy threatens big-four in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... much of their fortunes are hitched to an expected strengthening global economy following the re-election of US President Barrack Obama yesterday, says Ernst & Young's Paul Siviour. Despite combined cash earnings of more than $25 billion underlying the ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... that'll be released before the 6 November US Presidential polls. A better-than-expected labour market number will boost Barrack's chances and give Romney the runs. The numbers Obama expects to beat and Romney prays he doesn't - plus 124,000 jobs gained ...