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Australian Islamic finance presents opportunities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... million Sukuk fund and a $5 million asset-leasing fund. Kalam said that this deal could signal the start of an exciting growth story driven by overseas interest in investment in Australia. "Australia has one of the best financial systems in the world ...

Boston Bombs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... two bombs had exploded at the Boston Marathon - run on Patriot's Day every year - this morning. It's still a developing a story. The whos and whys are yet to be determined. But while America's national security agencies are still gathering information ...

Fool's gold?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... That's' just 1.9% of total gold purchases made by world central banks last year. But you know the drill. Just like any other story that comes out of the Eurozone, it's about contagion. What if Greece, or Portugal, or Spain, or Italy, or... are forced ...

Most equity investors upping overseas exposure: survey

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... stocks, access to other asset classes such as technology, as well as the strength of the US economy and the emerging markets story. Of those that were still hesitant about investing internationally, 20.9% cited the lack of research as the main reason. ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... February's private payrolls data in paragraph 10 -- for a net miss of only 3,000. Why let the facts get in the way of a good story anyways. But let's give it the benefit of the doubt and assume "the US is slowing scare" is true. If this is the case ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... Kim Jong Un announcing that it has entered a "state of war" with South Korea. Though it's easy to dismiss this developing story - the Koreas have been at war since 1950s - there's potential that it could get out of hand. At least with departed leader ...

Social networks boost demand for financial advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... financial planners through the website or on Twitter using the hashtag 'AskanExpert'. "Ask an Expert is a great success story originally set up as an opportunity for those who have never received financial advice to dip their toe in the water and experience ...

Asian bonds insulated from Cyprus turmoil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... for Asian fixed income Geoff Lunt added that more and more investors were becoming familiar with the strength of the bond story in Asia and that improving fundamentals were seeing the market reach maturity. "The story is simple and powerful. Developed ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... the leading indicator - of business investment disappointed. They fell by 0.5% when they're expected to rise by 0.7%. Good story if Wall Street closed lower last night...but it wasn't to be. So off the backburner it went. Another stat that got less than ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... this precise moment in time because of its negative inflation-adjusted returns and using as lead "The Daily Telegraph's" story about how a Shanghai migrant worker saved 7200 yuan (US$1,153) for about 10 years, which his wife hid in the inside pocket ...