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The majority is wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
"Baby what a big surprise Right before my very eyes" - Chicago Yesterday we became witnesses on how the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) disproved the saying that, "the majority is always right". It kept the country's official cash rate unchanged at ...

Never wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... outlook" - such as a 20 per cent drop in stock prices perhaps. But what got me here is Danny quoting Marc Faber - yes, the guru who, back in December 2008, predicted that the US economy would take five, even 10 years, to recover; the same one who predicted ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
Destination: Highway one point seven zero. Yes Virginia, this is what the current euphoria on the Australian dollar has led to - the currency is now extrapolated to reach 1.70 against the US dollar by 2014. According to The Australian newspaper, not ...

Pengana hires resources guru

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Pengana Capital has hired former resources analyst and mining executive Ken West as an exclusive consultant for its global resources team. West, a founding partner of Perennial, retired from the boutique after a decade long spell last month. Prior to ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... sentiments of business magnate Rupert Murdoch on how the iPad could transform the media industry. Michael Harrison, the insurance guru turned business strategist who first poached the idea to Synchron, said people are jumping online to do just about ...

Baby steps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Tiger and the Fed - no not Roger -- were the weekend's biggest news. "I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behaviour," Tiger apologised to the world to try to get normality back into his life - not to mention to get endorsement juices ...

Fidelity's Bolton back in the game

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Fidelity International's investment guru Anthony Bolton comes out of his self-imposed exile from managing money to run a China fund next year. Bolton will manage the yet to be named China fund, which is slated for release in the end of March 2010. He ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
Australians all let us rejoice! We should be so lucky. Lucky. Lucky. Lucky. For a teeny-weeny land that represents only around 2 per cent of the global economy, nobody expected that this "lucky country" would be this lucky. While the biggest economies ...

Timbercorp investors get $50k aid

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... expert to advise the dealer group on Timbercorp's liquidation proceedings. More recently, the group hired forensic accounting guru Paul Sweeney from SV Partners. "We're realists, but we believe that with the timber in the ground and growing, there doesn't ...