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Strong dollar fuels shift to unhedged intl equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... if it is an unhedged international fund," said Bineham. Bineham also said some of his own clients having bought up US dollars in preparation for travel or simply ahead of the dollar falling. Meanwhile, Mathew Kaleel, chief investment officer at H3 Global ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... days you're looking at the market's performance since the US Federal Reserve magically created US$600 billion more US dollars on 3 November. Since then, Wall Street climbed three days (including last night's) and was down two. Since then, the S&P 500 ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... massage financial market expectations. But at the same time this infers that QE2 is a done deal. And with QE2 comes more US dollars. More US dollars mean upward pressure on non-US dollar currencies. This is why despite the G20's promise to "move towards ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... allow their currencies be when the US Federal Reserve is poised to flood the global financial system with newly minted US dollars. The point is that downward pressure on the US dollar will continue. The imminent QE2 announcement would be large enough ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... weaken. Yeah sure, pigs can fly. But action speaks louder than words. Pigs are bacon! With the prospect of newly minted US dollars coming our way - expected to be around US$500 billion to US$1,000,000,000,000 (US$1 trillion) - via QE2, what's there to ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... interpretation would then be that the US economy is picking up momentum that the Fed doesn't see the need to print more US dollars. This is not hard to imagine, especially given last night's reports on company profits and China. According to Bloomberg ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... US central bank would ease monetary policy further - through quantitative easing - very soon. It would release more US dollars into the economy by buying more US Treasuries. And what do you get when a commodity is in such massive supply? The commodity ...

Fully hedged funds are the past decade's winners: Zenith

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... a natural hedge, Ben Davis, head of research at Zenith, told Financial Standard. For example, assets denominated in US dollars have tended to appreciate in times of shock (even if the underlying asset declines) as investors flock to the perceived safe ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... fund into the Palmetto Catastrophe Fund, which in the 12 months to end of June gained 18.3 per cent, net of fees (in US dollars). This contrasts with world stocks, which returned a lower 9.4 per cent (based on the MSCI World index) and world bonds, up ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... bank announced that it plans to sell 45 billion euros from its foreign exchange reserves and use the proceeds to buy US dollars and gold. Huh? Run that by me again? Is this the same Iran that back in 2007 told the world that the US dollar was a "worthless ...