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Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... all-time record high of 14,164.53 points on 9 October 2007. This time it was different. Surplus savings from Asian and oil-producing Middle Eastern countries are supporting keeping interest rates down and low for spendthrift Americans. But as we now ...

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... needed to reinforce the equity market's optimism. Negative ones bring doubt which could set a chain of negative sentiment producing declines producing negative indicators producing negative sentiment. Last week was good news week for Mr. Market. Bloomberg ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... its members have been adhering to this cap on output. In the past, members try to improve their individual revenues by producing beyond their allocated quotas. The USD. The depreciation of the US dollar and expectations of further declines in the greenback ...

Mortgage funds redux

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... meant the existing breed of mortgage funds are far better for those who can forgo liquidity in favour of a stable income-producing fund. "What the guarantee has done is expose the liquidity flaws, which were inherent in the funds so in a sense, this ...

AFA calls for remuneration choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... approach to educating consumers about the value of comprehensive advice. "To say that we have not been successful in producing a transparent regime denies many years of hard work on the part of the industry, the regulator and the government," said Klipin. ...

Conflicts not all bad: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... conflicts of interest policy be aimed at eliminating the potential for a conflict to occur or should it be aimed at producing the optimal outcomes for the fund and its beneficiaries? "AIST leans to the latter position, provided always that conflicts ...

Norway SWF adopts ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... international initiatives. Central new measures that the Government is intending to introduce include exclusion of tobacco-producing companies from the portfolio, incorporating new requirements concerning transparency and reporting linked to the exercise ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... first quarter - more than double expectations of US$1.64 per share. Johnson & Johnson also beat market expectations producing first quarter earnings of US$1.26 a share against the market's US1.22 forecast. Has anybody even thought this possible three ...

Super is for income, not wealth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... don't understand the connection between the [superannuation] lump sum and how much income it earns. We [should] start producing statements not only in terms of wealth - because we will always be wanting to know what it's worth - but also in terms of ...

Caravan parks deliver high income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Caravan park funds are shaping up to be a fresh option for financial planners looking for income-producing products after Aspen Parks Property fund returned more than eight per cent in income last year. According to the firm's December fund report ...