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Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more...We must be over the rainbow!" -Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) And if not, we're surely on our way...and a pot of gold awaits (the metaphorical one of course, not the metal that's now in a bear market). Forget ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Global pressure to contain debt is ironically one of the biggest threats to the world economy, warns the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde. Writing in the Financial Times, Lagarde said world economic confidence ...

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 ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
If you can't beat 'em, regulate 'em... again. The Germans must have been standing too close to the euro kitchen that they could no longer bear the heat. After all, them Deutsche -- more than any other Eurozone-member nation -- have much at stake and ...

Future Fund books 4.2pc loss

FUTURE FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... an update on the three so-called nation building funds: the Education Investment Fund (EIF), the Building Australia Fund (BAF) and the Health and Hospitals Fund (HHF). At 30 June 2009, the EIF was valued at $6.49 billion, the BAF at $9.95 billion and ...

Govt to create national infra investment fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... if yet another Budget leak is to be believed. Modelled on the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Building Australia Fund (BAF) could skyrocket the government into Australia's number one investment manager. Rainmaker estimates the Future Fund is already ...

Phoenix won't rise from $1b fraud

The court case against Phoenix, a German hedge fund that embezzled more than $1 billion from 30,000 companies and individuals draws to a close next month, two years after the fraud was uncovered. In March 2005, the German regulator BaFin shut down the ...

Don't gamble with personal insurance: AXA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
Australians seem only too happy to invest in Lotto and gamble with personal insurance, something AXA finds puzzling considering how unlikely it is a Lotto win will be there to support them when their income can't. Statistically, it's no small gamble. ...

Superannuation not meeting minimum standards: ASFA

Superannuation in Australia is not meeting minimum standards of expectations (with regards to the actual amounts of retirement savings being achieved) and has consumers baffled with too much unfriendly jargon and tax complexities, according to ASFA ...
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