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Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... August 2010. Go ahead, compare the statements side by side and apart from a few fiddles here... and there in the wordings, nothing much has really changed. It was more or less the same assessment - and the same conclusion. "The Committee will continue ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... head. Can't blame Wall Street. For while it seems that a lot of things have happened since the recession ended last June, nothing much has changed. The Fed decided to leave its policy interest rate where it was since December 2008 -- at 0 to 0.25 per ...

Super back in the spotlight

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... inflation and interest rates. A move to partially forgo wage increases in lieu of superannuation contributions would be nothing new for Australia. The superannuation system as we know it was borne out of an agreement between the Australian Council of ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... And this is that this week's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting will result in no result. The Fed will decide to do nothing on interest rates - the fed funds rate shall stay at 0-0.25 per cent. And since this is a boring exercise for financial markets ...

Super segmentation comes of age

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Age is nothing but a number, even in super, with one researcher ambitiously setting up a new template to segment fund members beyond the usual Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomer divide. The 2010 Ultimate Superannuation Marketing Metrics study, conducted by ...

Rewind and replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
Nothing new. It's the same old song. If only this space allows for instant replay, it would be easier to ask you to rewind, then simply playback my past ruminations. Wall Street inched up overnight, but not so convincingly. So why is this? Why? Why? ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
"Same thing happened to me with wife number two, 'member? I have no idea nothing's going on, right? I come home one day and the house is empty, and I mean completely empty. She even took the ice cube trays out of the freezer. What kind of a sick bitch ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) had already made one - or the market thinks it has. It's a safe bet that the RBA will do nothing after its Board meeting today. Not when uncertainty lingers in the global economy and financial markets. Especially not when ...

Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... dreamers can dream of selling at a premium if prices rise. Or dreamers can wake up and walk away if prices fall. They lose nothing - it's the government's money anyway. Not to mention they get to live rent-free while foreclosure proceedings are afoot. ...

Nothing to fear in hung parliament

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
The financial services industry is still digesting the ramifications of Saturday's election cliffhanger, which has given Australia its first hung parliament since 1940. "It certainly does leave the industry in limbo at the moment," said Fiona Reynolds ...