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Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
The S&P 500 index closed on another record high. Ho-hum. It's been happening almost daily these days, it's no longer news...bo-ring. Reporting another inch up on the previous record high just doesn't cut it no more. How about "U.S. Stocks Rise, S&P ...

US stimulus having no direct impact

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
Quantitative easing is having little direct impact on the market, according to Cato Institute senior fellow Dr William Poole. In a presentation at the CFA Institute Investment Conference in Melbourne yesterday the former president of the Federal Reserve ...

Secrets of world's greatest investors revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
Operate with less risk than your peers, be prepared to change strategy if the market changes, don't invest in what you don't understand and work very hard. These are some of the attributes that characterise the world's 99 greatest investors, according ...

Asset manager growth ambitions slowed by regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
Australian asset managers say their growth ambitions are being hindered by regulatory constraints and the burden of updating systems and process, according to a survey of 200 Asia Pacific managers commissioned by State Street. In a bid to improve transparency ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 7 (going by the US time zone)...and counting. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it Virginia? Wall Street's back to the seesaw - up or down depending on every single blah US politicians' invoke over the shutdown and the debt ...

Impasse ends when Wall Street says stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013

December taper, pants on fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013

QE infinity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013

Hedge fund maestro Hintze voices concern over regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Tighter regulation poses the greatest challenge to the hedge fund industry, according to Australian industry legend Sir Michael Hintze. Speaking at the Alternative Investment Management Association's Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney this week, Hintze said ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
"Dad, can you help me buy my own property?A I'm sick of paying ever-rising rent." My dear daughter asked me this during two Sunday dinners ago.A My first instinct was to say "of course" to my only girl among four children (yes four) - now you gentle ...