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Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... European sovereign debt crisis was upon us in 2010 and 2011. And in 2011, the Jasmine Revolution and Japan's earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown incident compounded things. Then again, Wall Street indices were much lower back then. The S&P 500 index ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... financial crisis and the great recession, the European sovereign debt crisis, the Jasmine Revolution, the Japan earthquake/tsunami, the US fiscal cliff and downgrade of its rating below AAA. And oh... economic growth in the biggest demanders of gold ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... back up to a reading of 48 of the same year - on fears of euro disintegration; Jasmine Revolution and Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown. The Fed's QE3 and the ECB's "whatever it takes" announced in September 2012 appear to have been the major ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... notable of which are the European sovereign debt crisis, the prospect of currency wars, the Jasmine Revolution and the tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan, and more specifically for the US - Standard & Poor's downgrade of its credit rating from AAA ...

FPA to lobby against FoFA redundancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... Rantall said. "To add that additional piece of red tape on advisers is inappropriate when they're already drowning on a tsunami of legislative change." Rantall explained that "consumers now can take control of the transaction because they're paying fees ...

Survivor: the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... with your name on it, she has millions of bullets inscribed with 'to whom it may concern". (unknown) The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that wrought deaths and disaster in 15 countries in Southeast Asia and Africa proved this. Hurricane Katrina that devastated ...

EWM Group launches new philanthropy division

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... transfer" of wealth to the next generation of Australians amounting to more than $70 billion. "We are on the cusp of a tsunami of wealth with a record amount of family assets moving into the hands of the X and Y generations in the next decade," EWM managing ...

ASIC acted only when claims hit "tsunami level"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... Investments Commission (ASIC) has condemned the fact that the regulator acted only when the volume of complaints "reached tsunami level." In a submission to the Senate inquiry on ASIC's performance, Anne Lampe, who is a Walkley award winning investigative ...

Insurers now in full recovery mode

STAFF WRITERS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
Nearly two years after the devastating series of natural disasters that saw floods, bushfires, earthquakes and tsunamis scar the Asia-Pacific region, the insurance and reinsurance industry is close to recovery. With the great majority of short-tail ...

Catastrophe bonds offer answer to asset correlation problem

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... by movements in financial markets or interest rates, but by whether certain events, such as an earthquake in India, a Tsunami in Japan or a storm off the east coast of New York, do or do not occur. This means that returns are unrelated to the economic ...