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Go for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... market under stress. When the boom turned to bust, the demand for gold changed from consumption -display of wealth - to defense - preservation of wealth. In the late 1990s, gold lost its glimmer as European central banks unloaded their gold reserve holdings ...

In defense of Citi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... employees do not join the dole queue - well at least not just yet. The financial crisis is far from over. Like former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld quipped during the Iraq War, "there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also ...

It's the war, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... this is better than consensus expectations for a 0.5 per cent decline. And yes, the war cushioned the fall. US national defense spending increased by 18.1 per cent in the September quarter following a 7.3 per cent rise in the previous three-month period. ...

Global recession coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... previous month. Markets were expecting a drop of only 1.9 per cent. The decline was due to the 38.1 percent fall in non-defense aircraft orders. But the data remains woeful even if this were taken out. Durable goods orders, excluding transportation ...

Defensive fixed income wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... credit bloodbath. The key to above average returns following the events in the US last week, is to practice the mantra of defense. "In general a lot of fixed income components are very attractive right now with proper defensive strategies. The key message ...

Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
US fund managers drive better governance in the companies they invest in by using proxy votes to block board decisions that are not in the shareholder's best interest, a study found. The Investment Company Institute (ICI) analysed more than 3.5 million ...

SecuritEase on the defense after Tricom fallout

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
SecuritEase - the software provider that was falsely reported as responsible for broker Tricom's woes - suffers another blow when a new client, broking firm Tolhurst, opted to re-sign with its previous IT provider, GBST. In April last year, Tolhurst ...

Future Fund on the defense

The $51 billion Future Fund has dipped its toes in the equity and property markets but the bulk of its portfolio remains in cash, the fund's latest investment update reveals. The 31 January update released today shows that 8.8 per cent of the fund's ...

More data leakage and spam in 2007

... traveling outside the enterprise, usually via unsecured methods. As a result, desktop encryption will become a mainstream defense mechanism and content security will become more sophisticated to address this shift toward data protection, monitoring both ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... points to 5425.1. NEW YORK - US stocks advanced on Wednesday as a jump in technology stocks and news that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will step down offset jitters about US election results. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 26.82 points ...