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ASFA: Focus on the positives

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
This year's ASFA conference in Brisbane opened in high spirits, despite the last minute cancellation of one of the key note speakers, Dr. Jose-Ramos Horta. The Timor -Leste president was replaced in the opening plenary session by former Liberal Foreign ...

Indigenous Australians offered chance to Clime career ladder

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
Clime Asset Management will welcome an Aboriginal trainee into its business next month, with a view to helping them develop into an investment professional and prompt other firms to follow their lead and change perceptions within the industry. Clime ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... guess it's now up to Big Ben to come up with another plan - a plan to short circuit the market's negative predisposition, lest the financial markets will America into a double dip. Big Ben will be speaking at Jackson Hole this Friday.

Just do it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... share price jumped 10 per cent overnight after it reported a 14 per cent jump in net income in the quarter ended May 2011. Lest you start thinking that this was more due to cost reduction, know that total revenues also increased by 14 per cent. Because ...

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... do you expect? It's a Coalition Government after all. Labor knows to tread carefully, not to agitate its partners-in-power lest all the fiddling it's done to get the Budget to show a surplus in two years' time goes to nought. And it may have succeeded ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider trading, the tomorrow I referred to was a metaphorical tomorrow not the "tomorrow" tomorrow. Wall Street ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... too? But they'll claim self defense. The point is the IMF has no teeth to effect sanctions on these giants of the globe - lest it wants its funding withdrawn. Now everyone's looking ahead at the G-20 Summit in November where currencies are expected to ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... Not after the big drop it encountered heading into the weekend last week. Can't have any of that again. Better get out now lest we get hit again and spend the rest of the weekend worrying. Won't have any of that. Especially not when the Europe is set ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... to America's "federal debt" and its "capacity to borrow". He must have thought it was time to make an appearance again - lest people forget who "the maestro" was. After all, it had already been 50 months since he was at the helm of the most powerful ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... in the same direction for weeks...that's what's changed. China remains in a tightening mode. It cannot afford not to do so lest it risk an overheating in its economy. Have Greece and the other PIGS paid back a single euro of debt? Not! Japan is out of ...