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Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... stability". We all know he was referring to low-flation which, declining economic activity could turn into de-flation. To round up our biggest of the big - them who decide our monetary fortunes - we turn to Japan. The Markit/JMMA flash Japan manufacturing ...

No difference between retail and insto: RARE

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... something works in the insto market, it will also work in the retail, he added, "it doesn't necessarily work the other way round." However he did not discuss the impediments to retail investors accessing unlisted infrastructure, which normally requires ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Australia is home to around 195,000 millionaire households, putting the country 14th in the global league tables, just ahead of India. The figure comes from the latest private wealth survey from management consultant, the Boston Consulting Group. Leading ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
Take that... and that... and that! Yes, Virginia, the European Central Bank (ECB) didn't disappoint market expectations - heavens forbid if it did - and acted, giving it all it's got, except for the proverbial kitchen sink (this it reserves for later). ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... in the week ended 24 May to 300K - better than expectations for a fall to 319K. Sure, sure... they bounce up and down and round and round from one week to another but they've been bouncing at levels below 350K since March - 50K less than the 400K generally ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
"Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel..." - Noel Harrison It's up, it's down... it's goin' round and round. Yup Virginia, that's Wall Street for you. But the up one day (on dip ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
Anything you guys can do, I can do better... If the Fed, BOJ, ECB and PBOC could do it - forward guiding markets that monetary policy would remain easy (easier next month in the case of the ECB) - why couldn't the BOE? Yes it could! By most indications ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Phew! Well that wasn't so bad after all. Yes Virginia, if you didn't fall asleep listening to Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget speech last night - mainly because most of the measures Joey mentioned were already drip-fed to us days in advanced - you'll ...

Stakeholders stage FoFA confrontation in Senate submissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
A new round of submissions to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) amendments has seen consumers, academics and industry bodies holding increasingly opposing positions. Most stakeholders focused on the most controversial topics ...

Custodians fight hard for big super deals

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... the super fund representative may travel to the custodian's head office overseas. "It would probably then involve a second round of due diligence, probably starting to get a bit more into the details of the solution." All in all, Cheever said the whole ...