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Just another ordinary day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
"European Stocks Fall as Metals Slide; Yen Drops on G-20 Meeting" (Bloomberg) "European shares fall for 3rd day, Carlsberg leads market lower" (Reuters) "Metals dip, European shares mixed" (Australian Financial Review) "European Stocks Drop" (Wall Street ...

Oil price spike won't spoil Aussie equity party

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
While the rising oil price might make some investors worry about the sustainability of the global economy, Perpetual Investment's head of investment market research, Matt Sherwood, says Australian businesses should be more insulated. Rainmaker chief ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Despite experts warning of a bond bubble, US mutual fund investors poured US$304 billion into bond funds last year. According to figures from the US Investment Company Institute, the bond fund inflows trounced the $153 billion that was withdrawn from ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... Wednesday. "Apple's disappointing sales results were the main negative factor for US indices overnight but this is unlikely to worry local investors too much," CMC Markets chief analyst Ric Spooner said. "Broader economic statistics released over the ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... our shores! Looking good Australia. But before that we must first traversed the near-term bump that's again beginning to worry the pants off investors from New York to Rio and old London town. Yes, we've got a problem coming Houston. It's the US debt ...

Bendigo to offer Challenger annuities in new deal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... manager of business partners services at Bendigo Wealth. "This way they can retain exposure to growth assets without having to worry as much about volatility." Challenger's Liquid Lifetime Annuity was named by Rainmaker as 'best innovation of the year' ...

It's just plain dumb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... are of reading about it - that if this doesn't stop soon, I might just jump into one. To be sure, to be sure it's a big worry - an event risk that could change the course of 2013 and perhaps beyond. But if you take your gazes away from the day to day ...

Outcomes-based investing is the future for wealth creation sector: AMP

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... met, he said. Losing members to competing funds is only happening on the periphery and the superannuation industry should worry more about the surge in the number of do-it-yourself funds, which is directly connected to those investors' not being happy ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... Businesses could go ahead and invest and hire and consumers resume shopping. But while everybody and his uncle's dog continue to worry about the cliff and persistent economic malady in Europe, one Asian country is going its own merry way. No, it's not ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Greece is saved... again! Wall Street back to worrying about the cliff... again! Yes Virginia, this is another I told you so moment. You, I and Irene expected these to happen all along: We won't have closure on that US$607 billion fiscal cliff until ...