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Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
What do you get when you fall in love (with stocks)? A person with a pin to burst your bubble. That's what you get for all your trouble. Yesterday I warned that the equity markets' advance had been too fast and running too far ahead of economic fundamentals. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US stocks slumped on concerns about the level of bad loans held by banks following Bank of America's earnings report. Gold miners may gain after the precious metal advanced on Monday while ...

Low volatility not always low risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... that the investment has only periodically been marked to market means it is all the more likely to lose its value when the bubble bursts," they said. AURUM is a boutique hedge fund manager with $US 1.5 billion in assets that this year won the InvestHedge ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... better after that. The US has not suffered any more recessions, the 1987 Stock market Crash did not happen, the dotcom bubble continues to bubble, the Asian Crisis was just a figment of the imagination, and LTCM - the forerunner of too big to fail institutions ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Investors can be better protected from the next investment bubble if the government legislate subsidised financial advice and support an insurance scheme that will hedge home-owners against extreme property prices, said Dr. Robert Shiller, the author ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... spread to the economies of Latin America and Russia. The Australian economy slowed but avoided a recession when the dotcom bubble burst, when September 11 threatened borders in 2001, when the US went into a recession in 2002. It is in every economy's ...

Property re-pricing to come in waves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... quickly to meet new market realities," it noted. The group predicts that the bursting of the Australian direct property bubble could be well and truly underway from the second quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2010, with asset prices falling by ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... come. Just as it did for the housing market. Like the 'Greenspan put' of the 1990s, the Bernanke Fed may be creating a bubble in Treasuries if it has not yet already.

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... self-fulfilling prophecy. For the younger generation, this expectations bias had been clearly demonstrated in the dotcom bubble and the pre-sub-prime equity bull market. Expectations of higher prices led to speculation of even higher prices. Rising prices ...

Rebalance now, reap rewards later

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... exposure over the past three years benefited from the bull run but became significantly overexposed to equities. After the bubble peaked in 2008, shares went into a tailspin. Investors who properly rebalanced their portfolios locked in profits as the ...