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If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
After all is said and done, much was said but nothing was done. Risk-takers have every reason to feel disappointed for none of the central banks - Fed, ECB, BOE -- that met this week walked their talk (the BOE though didn't do much talking). There weren't ...

No Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... we awoke - still up by 2.8% from the day before Mario's "whatever it takes" declaration. Yes Virginia, the Fed offered nothing new. Growth has slowed... "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June suggests that economic ...

The twain could not meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... of July's losses, as investors reacted to strong corporate earnings and continued hopes for central-bank intervention." Nothing it seems. It sounds oh, so rationale. Even more so when you find out that it was the much-respected "Wall Street Journal" ...

Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Move on people, get going, nothing to see here. Wall Street went home happy last night despite Uncle Ben's much-anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs being a non-event - a maintenance ...

Six more staff to leave Wilson HTM

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... position. "We have had a number of executives leave, which is part of our strategy, and many were shareholders," he said, nothing that they were entitled to offload their shares. However, in light of current marker conditions, Wilson HTM has considered ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... the sky does really look like it's about to fall. There's an air of depression swirling about in financial markets as nothing appears to be going right and more uncertainties are in the offing. There is Europe. The europhoria sparked by the "breakthrough ...

Provident Capital leaves 3500 investors in limbo

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... corporate governance procedures. "When everybody looks at those June 30 2011 accounts they look very much in order and there's nothing there to suggest that they're about to go into the trouble they did but we acted on the information that we could extract ...

Census 2011: Australia is changing, and fast

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... already pushed up home prices, fuelled by naive government policies to give cash hand outs to first home buyers that do nothing more than fuel demand against this limited supply, so the average household now spends 34% of their income on mortgage payments ...

Vic to issue bonds to plug VisionSuper DB deficit

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... protect you from markets. We believe we're pretty well on the money in terms of our strategic asset allocation. There is nothing protecting anyone at the moment." He also said that the recently failed merger with Equipsuper did not contribute to the ...

UHNW take $720bn hit in 2011

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... active portfolios, nowadays people put it onto a savings account or a term deposit, or a fixed income bond." "There's nothing happening with the portfolio - there's no income, and the costs are going through the roof for the banks so therefore there's ...