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Mercer issues super fund imperatives

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... uncertainty in the economic and political environment, we see potential for interesting investment opportunities; there are few excuses for complacency. Low yields and heightened volatility make risk management more important than ever," Mercer's Top ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... told you so... many, many, many times before. What PM Li likes, PM Li gets. The "expert" forecasters' rationales - nay, excuses - for why they got it wrong were oh so, predictable. China fudged the numbers. Yup, the go to reason whenever China refuses ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... indicates that Athens is extending an olive branch to its creditors, and so on and so forth. You say rationales, I say excuses. This is because despite the gloom and doom peddled by the headlines financial markets know too well how it will all end - ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... strike and "erroneous seasonal adjustment" for another one of those weak first quarter in America... certainly, the same excuses could not apply to the other slowing big OECD countries. The severe winter, maybe. The port strike, certainly not. The strong ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

Easy money to fill in the slack at the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... ageing and declining labour force. Yes folks, problems, problems, problems everywhere on the labour market front - or is it excuses, excuses, excuses everywhere to keep policy easy. The main take-away from Jackson Hole is nicely summed up by Super Mario ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... title - "Re-Evaluating Labor Market Dynamics" -- of this year's Jackson Hole conference says it all. Read: "Finding New Excuses to Maintain Low Interest Rates For Longer". We'll know for sure this coming Friday. Meanwhile, China's in trouble again. No ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Industry prepares for Abbott's first budget

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... spokesman Tony Burke said Hockey has a herculean sales job on his hands. "He's going to have to sell the budget by making excuses for telling lies," Mr Burke told ABC radio. Read Financial Standard's coverage of the budget here.

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... actions, "forward guidance" and what have you's. The Fed and the BOE have already altered their thresholds so they have excuses to keep on pumping and/or keep interest rates low for longer. The ECB's promised to act "if necessary" and the BOJ's poised ...