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More risk checks needed for super fund equities

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... illiquidity problems would be something so severe it was unlikely to happen, and would probably trigger government intervention. HOSTPLUS does perform liquidity analysis.

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... however, the prospect of a near-term market rebound still depends on some form of central bank and/or government intervention. It's sad, I admit, but that's just the way it is if you want to play a short-term game with the markets.

Fidelity: Government intervention cause for concern

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
Fear of government intervention has created a climate of corporate anxiety for Asian and European companies despite healthy balance sheets, according to new research. A Fidelity survey of more than 110 of its research analysts across the two continents ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... postulated that an economic system that allows individuals to pursue their own self-interest free from government intervention and under conditions of competition and common law, would be a self-regulating and highly prosperous economy. "It is not from ...

Green light for global equities surge: Bell Potter

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... expect it has got a few nasty corrections in it, but generally speaking after 12 months has passed (after government intervention), the market starts its new run up," he said. A 60 per cent increase from current levels would see our own index venturing ...

ETS collapse threatens ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... investment strategists that the market is losing momentum. The new Liberal Party policy of 'direct action' for government intervention to select favoured technologies and protect key GHG emitters, instead of a market-based emissions trading scheme (ETS) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
Australian stocks are expected to open higher on Thursday with the Federal Reserve's positive statements about the state of the economic recovery in the US driving gains on Wall Street. At 0804 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... pendulum may have swung too far the other way, but ultimately prices will find their equilibrium level. Government intervention distorts prices. It would merely slow the pace at which house prices discover what is fair. Another problem with the plan ...

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... operating according to vastly different objectives and there wasn't any liquidity at all. Even worse, government intervention was still years away. "The depth of recession in the US is not as severe as the press or other strategists is suggesting," he ...

Pengana Global Volatility gains 24pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... breeds opportunity [for the fund]," said Wilkinson. With the US election out of the way, and after much government intervention, the index is back to around the mid-50s range and Wilkinson expects it to slide to around 50 come Christmas time. While he ...