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Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... working in reverse to allow our trading partners to catch up. We are buying more of their produce. In time, their gain would be ours too. The A$ is doing the task of tweaking economic settings to the new reality. The RBA could afford to wait...depending ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Watch the screens today! For at exactly 1130 hours (AEST), the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release a tally of how many of us were able to keep our jobs last month, how many were still looking for work and how many started submitting forms to ...

Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
See my finger? Yes, the middle one. No. The statement is not to gloat about Wall Street's overnight jump proving my call for a continuation of the equity market uptrend correct. Speaking of which, America's major stock market indexes jumped 2 per cent ...

Aussie John cracks insurance market

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
John Symond, the Aussie Home Loans founder who transformed the home loans market in the 1990s, has set his sights on shaking up another sector and this time, it's direct insurance. Symond, renowned for his Aussie brand of mortgage services, said he ...

CalPERS ploughs more into private equity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
The $231 billion CalPERS is putting more funds into private equity and global fixed income, but is raising its cash targets. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) said it is increasing the target allocation for its Alternative ...

New chapter for DST Global Solutions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Investment management technology provider DST International has been renamed DST Global Solutions Ltd, to reflect a business restructure and a move towards providing software services, not just products. Starting this year, the group will have three ...

Austock exits asset management

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
Austock has sold its asset management business, which includes the Austock High Yield Fund and Austock Australian Equity Fund, to Martin Ryan, one of the company's founders. In an ASX statement, Austock said that Ryan, one of the founders of Austock ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
Good news begets good news. The number of headlines and stories trumpeting that we are getting close to the end of the global financial crisis tunnel had been increasing over the past few weeks. Equity markets like these. They rallied and continue to ...

REST deploys $300m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
REST Superannuation pours $300 million into the credit markets through two new fund manager mandates. REST invested $150 million in Credit Suisse's Syndicated Loan Fund, while $100 million was deployed into the Stone Tower Offshore Credit Fund during ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Surprise! The exclamation would almost always put a smile on anyone's face especially when the expected worst turns into a welcome better. Financial markets have been bombarded day after day after day with news that went from bad to worse to worst for ...