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One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... been given all the excuse in the world to dump stocks and stock up on bonds. And no other government bond offers the best defense like those issued by Uncle Sam - especially now that even the US Federal Reserve is doing some shopping of its own. Ahah! ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... investing in around 100 high-quality growth stocks. Using a sports analogy, Berg alikens the strategy's stockpicks to a defense-offense strategy. "In very volatile sectors of the market, like materials, where demand has fallen off and there are all sorts ...

Vice fund underperforms S&P 500 by 13pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... surfing their way to financial bliss. The US-based Vice fund identified stocks across tobacco, alcohol, gaming and aerospace/defense industries. The premise behind this fund is that these industries will thrive regardless of the economic climate. The ...

Trader's market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... the media may have a point because the bigger-than-expected rise in durable orders was due to a 19.2 per cent jump in defense orders and a 126.0 per cent surge in non-defense aircraft. Excluding defense, orders rose by only 1.6 per cent. Excluding defense ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... absolute liability to do due diligence by hiring one of these companies [that do reports]. If they don't, they don't have the defense that nobody told them." As for the role of the regulator on stopping another Madoff-style collapse, Brown said that ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... self-fulfilling prophecy. Seems like I need to add the letters W and R to my surname - Ong - this month. WRONG! But in Mr. WROng's defense, I concluded the piece with, "In the end, this September will be like all other Septembers (and maybe some Octobers) ...

The perfect hedge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... inflation and/or market turmoil. The global financial crisis has changed the demand support for gold from consumption to defense. The recent improvement in the global economic and financial market environment appears to have lessened this defense-induced ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... and Fitch. Where the bloody hell were they one day, one week, one month, one year before the Lehman went kaput? In their defense, credit rating agencies don't claim to be prophetic. According to Wikipedia, '...their advice constitutes only a "point in ...

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 ...