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Yin to market yang

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... market rally since November last year. He said Beijing authorities would prefer to launch pre-emptive strikes to burst the bubble before it even starts forming in order to sustain China's economic and stockmarket growth over the long term. "You might ...

Templeton and TAAM top EM review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... 'recommended' by the firm. While the emerging markets sector has suffered during events like the Asian financial crisis, the tech bubble and the sub-prime liquidity crisis it has delivered solid returns in the long-term. The recent developed market rally ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... monetary and fiscal stimuli have worked. So much so that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) warned last month of a developing bubble in the housing market. A bubble in a time of a "Great Recession" since the "Great Depression?" Australia's monetary ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... adroitness in handling the crises of recent history -- the Asian Financial Crisis, LTCM collapse, Russian default, the dotcom bubble, the US recession of 2002. The RBA shielded Australia all through these episodes of market turbulence. And it looks like ...

Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Forty years ago today, what was thought beyond the realms of human possibility became reality. Man landed on the moon. No one also imagined Professor Nouriel Roubini turning into a bull. For as long as I care to remember Professor Nouriel Roubini was ...

Prescriptive regulation is not the answer: Tanner

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Future financial services regulation should be flexible to deal with new problems as they arise but not invasive or prescriptive, said Lindsay Tanner, minister for finance and deregulation. Speaking at the International Corporate Governance Network ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... the volatility well, particularly through last year where we understood from previous experience the impact of a housing bubble bursting, the most recent example of that is Japan," said Lin. "We were quite prepared for the correction because we realised ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... levels. Rising inflation. Rising interest rates. Deflation. US$ depreciation. Below potential growth. Stagflation. Another bubble. You name it. The risk here is that by being boggled with concerns over the long run, governments and central banks are ...

Seven in 10 investors are bullish: ML

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... international investment strategy. "However, this rush to take on risk, especially in emerging markets, is reminiscent of bubble-like behavior. A record net 40 percent of fund managers are looking to overweight the region in the next 12 months." Gary ...

Up and over in the land downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
V for victory against the GFC. V for the V-shaped rebound in the Australian economy. V for 'very wrong' to those who continued to stick to their recession calls up to the very end. In case you missed it, the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday ...