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Feds speak Fedspeak yet again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013

Good, bad: all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... Washington again early next year. Even more so, not soon after the publication and formal presentation to the IMF of William English' (head of the Fed's Division of Monetary Affairs) and David Wilcox's (Fed director of US economic research) research ...

Mohammad goes to mountain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013

China's party plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013

FOMC - Fed Outs Market Confusion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... of another Labor leadership broil in Australia or even the viral video of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking in English...but nothing else matters for financial market players and practitioners today, tomorrow and the day after but Ben. He's sexy ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... (according to Wikipedia) is that "the term Fedspeak (also known as Greenspeak) is what Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" used by Federal Reserve Board chairmen in making intentionally wordy, vague, and ambiguous statements". Damn, I don't ...

Social media a counter-balance to info overload

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... stream-line his business process. "I have used someone in Bangladesh who worked out well, but if they don't have excellent English I won't work with them," says Zelman. "It's also possible to find Australian outsourcing companies based offshore operating ...

Estelle Pearson Actuary of the Year

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... said the Actuaries Institute. In 2009, Kaise Stephan was bestowed the award after becoming the first actuary to swim the English Channel, raising over $AU122, 787 for a children's hospital. Other notable winners include Fred Rowley in 2010 for his work ...

Advisers failing to engage disillusioned consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... mind-bogglingly complicated. "One of the things advisers can do as a community to help engage people is to talk in plain English, get rid of jargon and communicate with people in terms that they understand," he said. "The media has a responsibility but ...