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What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
It's Veterans Day holiday in the United States - a day celebrating the signing of the Armistice that brought World War I to its formal end. And as the world celebrated the end of the first world war that happened nine decades and two years ago, the ...

Australian Catholic Super prepares for take-off

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
The $3.7 billion Australian Catholic Super has made a significant investment into Investec's Global Aircraft Fund. Investec said in a statement yesterday that it had won another $50 million for its Global Aircraft Fund via an open ended capital raising ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
Investors make some of their investment decisions based on whether they support the political party in power or not, academic research shows. The School of Business finance department from University of Miami released data this month claiming that investors ...

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
"Well, it's a three step process. First, you think I'm going left. But I don't. So now you're thinking, am I going to go right or even confuse him by going left. So I go left again. Now you think I'm finally gonna go right but what I'm really gonna ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving strong, positive leads from offshore trading overnight. All key indices are higher, as are precious and base metals and oil. The Australian dollar briefly reached parity once more with the US dollar on Tuesday night. ...

The Cup, the RBA and the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
If you're a betting man, this is your week. There's a trifecta of events coming your way. The nation will stop tomorrow for the race that stops a nation. Odds-on favourite is for So You Think to pass the finish line in strides. We shall see! But even ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Australian super funds could be missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to add attractively priced, high yielding US property to their portfolios. So says Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, which has approximately US$4.5 billion in US property ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Freeze frame. Wall Street has frozen with excitement. Disappointing US third quarter earnings releases last night didn't matter -majority of companies still beat expectations anyway. Data on US house prices didn't matter - they don't know where they're ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Something out of the "new ordinary" happened overnight. Wall Street climbed at the same time that the US dollar exchange rate went up. My trusted data source - Bloomberg - reported that, "The dollar strengthened against 13 of 16 major counterparts ...