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Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Hold that turkey! Put that cork back into the champagne bottle! Thanksgiving has been hijacked! If you don't standstill, we sink. Dubai World reportedly intends to ask its creditors to "standstill" and extend maturities of its about US$59 billion debt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received a mixed lead from Wall Street, with major indices lower, but precious and base metals, and oil, higher. At 0829 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 12 points higher ...

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... or two positive ones. For instance, a below expectations dip in the Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index was offset by a spike in the Empire State manufacturing survey (one) and a drop in initial jobless claims (and a half). Similarly, stronger-than-expected ...

Shadow of a doubt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Could it be that the shadow of doubt is slowly creeping back into market consciousness? Sure, Wall Street jumped last night but why didn't the justifications sound as convincing as say, back in the first half of the year, when green shoots were all ...

Christian Super takes $30m cash strategy in-house

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
Christian Super has pulled its $30 million cash mandate out of an external fund manager after the number of members invested in its cash option spiked from 0.5 to 8 per cent of its entire membership base. Peter Murphy, chief executive at Christian Super ...

Ways to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... The domestic equity market's upward momentum has picked up in recent months. This could be derived from the recent strong spike in the 12-month moving average in the ratio of stocks that rose versus those that fell. Although a highly volatile indicator ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Volatility is not just a market barometer of investor sentiment, it is an emerging asset class too, said a fund manager that has amassed $5.8 billion on volatility strategies since 1999. French fund management giant Credit Agricole Asset Management ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
The Australian share market was flat at noon on Thursday, with gains among the banks and losses in the resources sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 10.5 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 3,893.6 points at 1200 AEST, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Global infra funds fall short

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... traditional Australian and global equities," said Eu Jo Chan, investment analyst at van Eyk. "However taking into account the spike in correlations it is clear that everything was sold off together." The van Eyk review initially included 13 fund managers ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... depends on how far and fast oil prices go. Recall that rising oil prices and rising commodity prices contributed to the sharp spike in inflation pre-GFC and the consequent increases in interest rates. Recall the decline household disposable income this ...