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Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... up those jitter-inducing headlines. Little ol' moi has just gotten reinforcements too - and it's from one of the biggest guns in the field. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Jordan over the weekend, Joseph Stigliz - yes, him, the Nobel prize ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
"BREAKING NEWS: President@BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP." Were it not for this Twitter post - later discovered to be caused by Associated Press' twitter feed being hacked ...

2013

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
Economists like predicting the future and so as 2012 draws to a close, what will be the big themes of 2013 for Australian institutional investors? The first one will be that Australia, as a fundamentally nervous nation, will continue to do all it can ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
There's no mistaking the jubilation in financial markets after our 'bestie' forever, Ben gave them what they expected... and then some. Moving on up. The S&P 500 and the Dow lifted by 1.6% overnight -- bringing the respective index levels just 6.7% ...

ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
The ACT government will become the first government in Australia to specifically exclude its investment funds from investing into the tobacco and arms industries. The prohibition is expected to only marginally impact the investment strategy of the $2.3 ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... news here is that the Fed doesn't expect a more severe economic deterioration and, therefore, not necessary to bring the big guns out (yet). Come to think of it, Wall Street also has only itself to blame for its own disappointment -- prices have not ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Boutique fund manager Treasury Asia Asset Management has appointed leading contrarian investor Marc Faber and one of Singapore's most successful fund managers, Teng Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... Bank of Canada will support as much as $30 billion, the Fed said. The swaps were authorised through January 2011." With all guns blazing, there were no other options left but for speculators and short sellers to duck for cover -- the euro rallied against ...

Managed accounts forum tackles key issues

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... regulation favours managed accounts to practical ideas on how to use IMAs and SMAs, planners will hear from the industry's top guns at this year's Managed Accounts for Financial Planners forum. The event will feature industry experts from planning groups ...