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Confusion in the inflection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... few months does not mean that suddenly we are teleported back - at warp speed - to the good old days pre-global financial crisis. The thing is even during normal recessions, economic and financial adjustments take time. What more under the current environment? ...

Tonight's the night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... predictions back then. Last May 2008, everything looked hunky dory. Not a cloud in sight. Let's party! Until the global financial crisis. What was 2.75 per cent growth forecast only a year ago would now be changed - according to news leaks -- to a 0.5 ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... consumers do not open their wallets. All the efforts, the stimulus packages and the guarantees thrown at the global financial crisis might come undone because the government seemingly is in a race to repair its balance sheet. Consumers' reaction to tough ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... good news. The number of headlines and stories trumpeting that we are getting close to the end of the global financial crisis tunnel had been increasing over the past few weeks. Equity markets like these. They rallied and continue to do so, prompting ...

Macquarie funds down, cash up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... year profits to $871 million with key investment divisions all reporting a fall in revenues due to the global financial crisis - but the silver lining was the growth of its retail financial services arm. Numbers announced today were in line with the ...

FPA recommends fee-for-service advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... clients that should be seeking advice. It's recognition of what's going on out there, combined with the global financial crisis where structural changes have become important and necessary," said Bloch. There will be challenges. The three-year timeline ...

Instreet a hit with planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... million in an Australian equities product that taps into planner demand for "certainty" in the midst of the global financial crisis. The asset manager celebrates its one-year anniversary as a firm with a winning formula on its hands. The Instreet LINK ...

Pockets of income in property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... also said that the Adelaide CBD has defied the vacancy problems experienced by other cities following the global financial crisis. "If you look at the vacancy rates across the country, the average vacancy rates have actually decreased here...it is the ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... by these big names. How lucky! They not only got away with less bruises from the whacking stick of the global financial crisis, they are now reaping big, fat, juicy carrots. They are the real Masters of the Universe in my book. Governments now looking ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... of investors. What did we get? Profit downgrades - left, right and center. No one is coming out of this global financial crisis alive! But just as investors got carried away with ever-rising valuations during the time of the dotcoms -- premised solely ...