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Don't let the bears out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009

AMP Capital Investors block poor corp governance

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... re-organisations, mergers and capitalisation changes. It said that generally, the number of such resolutions had historically been insignificant but that in the half year to date, these resolutions accounted for a high 15 per cent of all resolutions ...

Irrationally exuberant greater fool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009

September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... increasing bets that the steepest rally in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index since the 1930s won't survive September, historically the worst month for U.S. equities." This is based on VIX futures pricing which is expected to increase by 13 per cent in ...

Get into corporate bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... issuance (expected to hit $5 trillion by 2010) will dwarf the corporate sector bond market but with corporate yields at historically high levels Aberdeen believes opportunity abounds for savvy investors. "Corporate bonds offer greater diversification ...

Get into corporate bonds: Aberdeen

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... issuance (expected to hit $5 trillion by 2010) will dwarf the corporate sector bond market but with corporate yields at historically high levels Aberdeen believes opportunity abounds for savvy investors. "Corporate bonds offer greater diversification ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
The New Zealand bond market has moved in lockstep with its neighbour across the Tasman as it always had historically. There are numerous debates on why this should or should not be so. But whatever the underlying reasons behind this strong positive ...

Plug the information gap: SimCorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... highlighting the benefits of taking the job in-house, ahead of APRA's more extensive data collection later this year. Historically, super funds would outsource the investment selection decision to their asset consultant and then use a custodian to aggregate ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... commissions. "The life industry is always carved out of these debates when it is the highest payer of commissions historically," said Knox. The other elephant in the room is so-called "shelf fees", where product manufacturers pay a certain fee to be ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... would be hit sooner. However, they also show that claims have peaked - a positive for the economy. This is because historically - and I looked at 50 years worth - turning points in the US economy coincides with turning points in initial jobless claims. ...