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Europe push-US pull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
Obama in Australia may be providing us, Australians, a bit of a sideshow but for global financial markets, the game hasn't changed. It continues to be one that could be characterised as Europe pushed-US pulled. Europe pushed. Fears of a debt contagion ...

Second best month of the year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... EU competition commissioner Mario Monti chosen to sit where Silvio's bum formerly was. And get this, even PIMCO's CEO, the bear-friendly Mohamed El Arian, told a CNN interview that, "... it's not too late to solve" the European sovereign debt dilemma. ...

ESG adds value but in moderation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... tracking error and turnover as companies are pulled from the portfolio, resulting in inferior returns in most years outside the bear markets. But if ESG principles are applied pragmatically "we find that the investment outcomes are modestly enhanced ...

Go figure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
A brand new month, a brand new scare. Yes folks, just when we thought that it's gonna be a bright (bright) sun-shiny day, along comes the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) bearing bad tidings. And if you hadn't had your fill ...

FICAP on course for another successful fundraising event

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... have helped them. These included representatives from Youngcare, Life Changing Experiences, Australian Childhood Foundation, Bear Cottage and Open Family Australia. "Our sponsors have been incredibly generous over the years and we wanted to let them ...

FOFA reforms are a soft landing

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Bernie Ripoll MP told AFA conference delegates that the future of financial advice reforms represent a balance between the interests of major stakeholders and the middle ground. Ripoll said the inquiry that bears his name received over 400 submissions ...

The good, the bad and the whatever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
Wake up people, there's no time to let Monday-itis get the better of us - especially not this Monday. Not when there's news a -plenty to digest. There's good news to stir the animal spirits among the bulls... bad news to keep the bears on the pounce... ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
The Australian share market has extended its gains from early trade as investors return to equities on renewed optimism a solution is near at hand on the eurozone debt crisis. The local bourse opened more than one per cent higher on Thursday after Wall ...

Bear killer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... about all the windfalls that followed these. According to the Jeff Hirsch of the Stock Traders Almanac, "We've seen a lot of bear markets hit bottom and turn in October," noting that 11 post WWII bear markets on the Dow Jones Industrial Average reversed ...

Promises and plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... would go into an orderly default but still remain in the Eurozone in exchange for Germany getting its demand for creditors to bear a 50% haircut - more than twice the 21% agreed upon last July. That's the plan. And it will remain so until Germany's - ...