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Mercer stress tests retirement

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
Mercer has launched a new retirement calculator to help members 'stress test' their superannuation. The calculator models the impact that share market volatility or a career break will have on an individual's retirement savings and income. Mercer's ...

The octopus on fees versus commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... fees and six in favour of commissions. To make the research fair, Rainmaker said the order the choices were assigned was random to prevent the octopus showing any unintended biases. Meanwhile, the real Paul the Octopus, which lives in Germany has been ...

No complaints for HK regulator

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
Regulators worldwide have been criticised for failing to deal appropriately to the outcomes of the global financial crisis but the Hong Kong securities and futures regulator has received an overall thumbs up from market participants. The Neilson Company ...

Penny for Benny's thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... keep by trying to explain market movements. Many are forced to however inane the explanation. The truth is this is another random walk by a drunken sailor. Nothing much really happened overnight. A 0.1 per cent dip on The Street? Big deal! The truth ...

Irrationally exuberant greater fool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... per cent, the Dow a tad lower - 0.1 per cent - than yesterday's close and the Nasdaq ended 0.4 per cent higher. Another random walk on Wall Street, ya? But market commentators have to earn their daily bread, ya? So last night's session must be analysed ...

SMSF intl equities allocation halves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Self managed super fund (SMSF) allocations to international shares has almost halved over a one and a half year period. The Multiport SMSF Survey - June 2009, which randomly selects 1,000 SMSFs it administers, found allocations to international shares ...

Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... justify yesterday's equity sell-off for today's rally. Just change some adjectives. There will always be up and down days - a Random Walk on Wall Street. But the underlying trend remains up. Now let's go back to the finger - the middle one. This is Citigroup ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... equity tickets yesterday. Better chances because at least the odds are stack in favour of further gains in equities - not a random drop of a numbered ball. Bet you can tell I did not pick the winning numbers? For as I've pointed out yesterday, nothing ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... in a straight line...ever. This is why their daily movements have been compared to a drunken sailor and why the book 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street' -- first published in 1973 -- became a bestseller. Last night's price action takes the S&P 500 up more ...