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Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... within the realms of the recent spike in volatility in the Chinese equity market we've seen over the past few months. Nothing China's powers that are couldn't handle. Even the VIX index - the "fear gauge" - is not perturbed. It rose from 13.74 last Friday ...

Philanthropic LICs a triple win: Wilson

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... about the model: "He said that these funds need to be a good deal to the shareholder. Without the capital, you're giving nothing to the charities. "Shareholders get a good deal because if they want to invest in those managers, they don't pay the management ...

Not all active managers are traders

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... research he conducted when running portfolios and investment teams for JPMorgan Asset Management, actively pursuing alpha has nothing to do with trading frequency especially as for many investment managers trading can become a goal in itself rather the ...

Oxi Oxi Oxi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... and comes with a warning: "For those who can't read Greek debt speak, well, you're on your own". Looks easy enough - if nothing is lost in translation - the answer would be oxi, oxi, oxi, except that the plan that was submitted on "25.06.2015" had already ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... with Peaches & Herb chanting "reunited and it feels so good, reunited 'cause we understood..." in the background. There's nothing else you and I and Irene could do but sit and wait. And by George, thank goodness that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...

Labor demands to see Treasury papers on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... superannuation, saying one thing publicly, but preparing to do another privately. "If the Abbott Government truly has nothing to hide on plans to super tax concessions then there should be no problems releasing these documents," Bowen said. "We know ...

Forward-thinking advisers benefit from opt-in deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... Financial Advice (FoFA) opt-in and fee disclosure statement requirements ends today, but forward-thinking practices have nothing to worry about. The deadline was originally June 30, 2014, but it was extended by a year after changes to the reforms were ...

A sobering lesson from a social move gone wrong

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... he said. He referred to his decision to cut the group's ties with Howarth as "a matter of common decency. "In 16 years, nothing like this has happened to me," said Euvrard, adding that he does not have a Twitter account.

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... avoid catastrophe". That's another two more after today. To quote Rita Mae Brown, "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done". Never mind if Greek banks don't open today - reports say that an additional a,-3 billion (US$3.4 billion) was ...

Investors pretending there's value in the market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... market when there isn't. There are a lot of stocks where people say, 'they must be cheap because the bond yield is next to nothing and the stock is yielding 3%," and that is not a valuation argument." "Investors have a clear choice here: either focus ...