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Voters opt to shut down AMP Capital China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... shut down at the EGM; commenting on this, Tindall said: "I would say to the majority of retail unitholders, we are truly sorry that the fund looks likely not to continue as you wanted." In his opening statement at the EGM, LIM Advisors director and portfolio ...

Younger clients best-served by robo-advice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... many advice groups who "saw two to three people a day come in with under $300,000 to invest, and the adviser has to say, 'Sorry, I can't help you,' because the cost of onboarding alone prohibits it." However, if advisers use automated investment tools ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
"and I swear (I swear) by the moon and the stars..." Whoops, sorry folks, I got carried away with "All 4 One's" tune. What I meant to type is, I swear this has happened once before. You know, the time when Wall Street "rejoiced" at the more likely than ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... The cheap Australian dollar also makes Australian assets - stock market cough, cough - more attractive to foreign eyes. So sorry to disappoint but we may not have the recession we longed for so long for just yet. Especially considering that further upheaval ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... this level since 2011 - give or take - which is below the 2.7% - 3.8% year-on-year growth rate seen between 2007 and 2009 (sorry, but this is the earliest available I have on my database). This is consistent with the recently published Employment Cost ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... don't trust the headlines and the spin around the headlines - it's now exactly 9:08 AM (AEST) and I'm still getting: "We're sorry, the BLS website is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in a few minutes." "Few minutes"? It's been hours! Stop hogging ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... to deal... and financial markets remain nonchalant, i.e. small contagion at the most? What's Tsipras' Plan B? Whoopsie! Sorry about that for he already has a Plan B - litigate the beejesus out of 'em. "The Athens government has insisted that Greece will ...

Mi problema su problema

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... next time. But this time could be different, maybe. It's the end game. This time the cows will finally come home to roost (sorry for the mix metaphors). This time, the prospect of a Greek default and eventually, Grexit - and fears of a contagion - is ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... If the next jobs report is strong... if second-quarter GDP look like it is bouncing quite sharply". And here's Jerome - sorry, Fed governor Jerome Powell to me - telling his audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in NY that, "Despite slowing in ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... doors in October this year and already, they came and are coming... in droves... from New York to Rio and old London town (sorry, NY's ego's still in the way). The good news is that unlike the IMF and the ADB - which you read about mainly when economic ...