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Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... to pay the ransom. The Massachusetts massacre of the Democrats made sure their voices are heard this time. However, the danger is that in trying to appease populist demands - or shall we say, win or at least retain seats at the mid-term elections - the ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." The sharp and widespread contraction in economic output, credit squeeze, massive bankruptcies ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
You are the definition of moral hazard! These words - delivered by Kentucky Republican Senator Jim Bunning at Ben Bernanke's Senate hearing on his nomination for a second term as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve - perhaps reflects the embodiment of ...

Wave of signatories could weaken PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
The head of a top investment firm warned that the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) is in danger of losing its potency as more finance firms sign up for the wrong reasons. Speaking at the Responsible Investor conference in ...

Years of living dangerously

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
Australians earning $60,000 a year or less could be forced to live on half that income when they retire, if the Government makes changes to super that "unintentionally" disadvantages low to middle-income earners. Industry body ASFA challenged new Treasury ...

Bond index returns beat active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Financial planners should rethink how they invest in Australian bonds after research found active managers underperformed the benchmark more than 94 per cent of the time over three and five years. The Vanguard study, which drew research from Standard ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
Wall Street has been on a holding pattern over the past three trading sessions. It's waiting...waiting...waiting. Waiting for what? Wall Street waits for the Fed's verdict on monetary policy. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) begins its two-day ...

Spam levels threaten inbox safety

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
Financial planners should have a good look at whether their internet security is up to date after a technology firm found the amount of spam on the internet rose by 192 per cent in a year. Security firm, Symantec, found the amount of spam on the internet ...

Trend Micro turns gatekeeper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
Financial planners and fund managers paranoid about the dangers that lurk behind social networks and "personal" surfing can now avail of a new IT solution that monitors web traffic at a granular level to prevent malicious software from sabotaging secure ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... Aussie dollar up. The point is the current rally in the Australian dollar could be explained. But again, I warn of the danger of extrapolating -- especially with currencies, which could reverse course at the turn of a dime. Currencies are made to float ...