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Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
As a student of economics, I've heard about John Maynard Keynes' 'Paradox of Thrift', David Ricardo's 'Ricardian Equivalence Theory', A Alan Greenspan's 'Interest Rate Conundrum' (which appears to be making a return performance in the US) and of course ...

Super funds out-growing local real estate

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... With the help of TH Real Estate, AustralianSuper bought 50% stake in Centre: MK, a shopping centre in the city of Milton Keynes in England. Similarly, the Future Fund acquired a 33% stake in one of the UKs largest shopping centres, the Bullring in Birmingham ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

AustralianSuper appoints European property manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... AustralianSuper entered the UK retail property market in December 2013, when it acquired a 50% stake in centre:mk in Milton Keynes for £270m. This major regional shopping centre was AustralianSuper's first direct investment for its European property ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... ladies and gents, is the moral of the above passage from 'The Fable of the Bees' -- the passage that JMK (John Maynard Keynes), himself, cited when he gave us the 'Paradox of Thrift'. Mandeville wrote 'The Fable of the Bees' in 1714 and JMK's paradox ...

Irish luck unlocked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014

AustralianSuper takes 50% stake in UK shopping centre

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... investment team has made its first direct property investment in the shape of a shopping centre in the UK garden city of Milton Keynes. AustralianSuper has teamed up with BT Pension Scheme - one of the largest in the UK - with each fund taking a 50% ...

QE according to Yellen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... monetary policy." Yup! QE supports the economy supports return to more normal monetary policy -- the monetarists' version of Keynes if you will. I may be mistaken but I don't recall Bernanke presenting his thoughts as vivid as this. Especially this one ...

Prayin' for a taperin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... Then again, does anyone want to fight the Fed...and all those other stimulating central bankers? And also, as John Maynard Keynes, aptly put it, "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". Just something to ponder over the ...