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Rationalise me

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... products with better features, and would also remove a significant source of risks of error and fraud in the financial system by closing outdated legacy products, a press statement noted. "The proposed solution seeks to strike a balance between protecting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
... pressure to help boost recovery, said on Tuesday it would pump more than $US100 billion ($A109.17 billion) into the financial system. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares closed up 1.34 per cent Tuesday on upbeat manufacturing data from China as investor concerns ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... Investors viewed the warning as the latest signal that Beijing is worried about risks building in the country's financial system after a year of massive lending. The benchmark Hang Seng Index lost 348.25 points, or 1.53 per cent, to 22,423.14. WELLINGTON ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
'Twas another boring day on the Street last night. News out of America showed continued weakness - or is it renewed weakening - in housing and behaved consumer price inflation. Both of which bolster the argument that the Fed will be easy for how much ...

Perpetual appoints Class Super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
Perpetual has selected Class Financial Systems' self managed super fund platform, Class Super, as its preferred platform for SMSF administration. Matt Pancino, group executive of operations for Perpetual said, "the Class Super platform was subject to ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
Have no fear, the Fed is here...to stay. Perhaps spooked by the pause on Wall Street in recent days, the Fed found it necessary to re-assure investors that borrowing rates would remain practically free for an "extended period." As if? Yes, as if the ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... cycle low back in March this year. But despite the optimism and the billions of euros injected into the region's financial system to at least mitigate the recession, financial markets expect the recovery in the Eurozone to be fragile. This is because ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... remains dependent on policy support, and high unemployment is a major concern. To restore the global economic and financial system to health, we agree to maintain support for the recovery until it is assured." Did I just hear the RBA mumble, 'speak for ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Dow 10,000! So now...tell me...how do you put a negative spin on that? Not when Annie's tomorrow becomes today. "The sun'll come out Tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There'll be sun!" Tomorrow's taken a year to come, but it has come. The ...

G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... headline grabbing rhetoric, the G-20 gabfest was just that. But then again, it's not that easy to change the global financial system as we know it - especially for leaders with conflicting motivations. Yet, there are reasons to be hopeful. Unlike the ...