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Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
US President Barack Obama is bringing David Riccardo back from the dead. When the US unveiled its first bailout acronym - TARP -- for the financial sector TARP - last year, I wrote about a theory taught us budding economists called the 'Riccardian equivalence.' ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
The contest for 'The Biggest Loser' went into full swing as bad news continued to flow. Right on the heels of the Eurozone's 1.5 per cent economic contraction in the fourth quarter, Japan's weigh in showed that its economy lost more, down 3.3 per cent ...

Capping fees is not the answer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
Senator Nick Sherry may be very vocal about the need to slash superannuation fees from an average 1.25 per cent to below one per cent but he said legislating a fees cap is out of the question. "I'm not an advocate of fee caps. I don't think that's appropriate ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Inflation is coming back down all over the world. The trend in consumer prices in Australia will be no different. At 11:30 AM this morning, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release data showing how consumer prices fared in the December ...

Daily unit pricing not the answer: Henaghan

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Pricing assets daily is counter intuitive to a super fund's aim of generating long term returns, according to Sean Henaghan from AMP Capital Investors. Henaghan, an investment director at the global investment firm, told an Investment Management Consultants ...

UN staff pension in "safe" hands

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
The $45 billion United Nations Joint Staff Pension fund (UNJSPF) chief executive has emphasised the fund is well positioned to meet benefit payments in a bid to allay growing member fears. Bernard CochemA(C), UNJSPF chief executive, said the financial ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
The US Congress is still deliberating the administration's latest rescue package - the details and the cost. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) acknowledges that despite the delay, the US Congress will ultimately pass the government's bailout ...

Saving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
The financial stability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have to be protected at all costs, as their falls would cause cataclysmic effects not just in the US but the rest of the world, including Australia. Speaking at the 2008 Russell Australasian ...

ETS or carbon tax, still same problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Whether or not the Australian ETS evolves into a carbon tax, businesses are now recognising that reducing carbon emissions is a mainstream economic issue that presents investment opportunities. "As a private person you may not like [having to reduce ...

Growth bond plays tax trump card

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
AMP has launched the AMP Growth Bond, a "tax paid" investment that allows investors to accumulate wealth with no lock in periods. The AMP Growth Bond is an investment or insurance bond style of where tax is paid on investment earnings within the product ...