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Sure 25 but maybe 50

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012

Ho-hum. There was nothing really all that interesting in the news that flowed out of overnight markets last night. It's the same old, same old. Data out of Europe only confirmed what we already knew and expected all along, Spain's now officially in ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012

... Hollande's win has forced (soon to be ex?) French President Nicolas Sarkozy into a run-off election in two week's time. Nothing wrong with that, except for the tiny matter of Hollande not wanting to choke the French economie with severe austerity as ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 23 APR 2012

... was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." No Virginia, I must admit I haven't ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012

... 22.97 reached last January and most definitely below the 45.45 reading in October last year. And why should they, when nothing much has changed since the first quarter of the year when equity markets around the world recorded very strong gains. Europe's ...

Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012

Move on people, nothing to see here. There were no significant portends from data releases overnight - nothing that would make ordinary investors jump with joy or hang their heads in sorrow. A fine excuse for us Australians to head for the pub early ...

A surplus in 2012/13, and then what?

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012

... you're thinking of blaming Wayne for this, please, pretty please, don't. He wasn't "Finance Minister of the Year" for nothing. Blame lower company tax receipts, he'll tell you. "Collections, particularly relating to company profits, have been lower than ...

Wobble gobbles

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012

... weren't very busy and investors seem more apathetic and bored than outright negative. $$" Bored because there really was nothing new to trade on. It's the same known known. But if you want to know what the majority of investors' -- US investors, at least ...

Not the biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG | SUNDAY, 18 MAR 2012

EU action has done little but buy time: Aberdeen

MELANIE TIMBRELL | FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012

... and difficult problems inherent in the EU," said Griffiths. "What the EU has successfully managed to do is buy time - nothing more and nothing less - although buying time has been a relatively big deal." "What we've got is more attention on effectively ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012

... and below trend world economic growth for the year overall. But as I claimed on this day exactly a week ago, "there was nothing fresh in last night's report - only a recycling of old spooks" and that, "if these recycled scares are the best rationales ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN | 12:33PM

Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA | 11:56AM

Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI | 11:09AM

The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA | 12:20PM

MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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