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Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
"Danger, Will Robinson!" Danger! Danger! Pick a stock market, any stock market, chances are it is now in correction territory - Dow, Stoxx 600, FTSE-100, All Ords, Strait Times, Jakarta Composite, Taiex, KLCI, PSEi - or in a bear market -- Hang Seng ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... slow. It has to or the doom and gloom predicted for this land girt by sea would just be that, "doom and gloom" predictions. No sir... can't have that! For what would happen to this headline, "Australia's economy in 'vicious circle', with sluggish growth ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... you again that China is a command economy - the Politburo commands, the economy and its economic agents ask "how high"... sir. This is precisely what's happening now. The government has announced measures defending the stock market - the PBOC cut interest ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
Now that Grexit worries have been sorted - sort of - and a Graccident averted (yet again), financial markets are likely to look for the next big worry. They don't have to scour far, wide and yonder - it was out-headlined by Greece these past few days ...

Standard Life chief to resign

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... succession planning process," Standard Life Investments chief executive Keith Skeoch will take on the role. Standard Life chair Sir Gerry Grimstone commented on Nish's departure, saying that the outgoing director "has shown great leadership over the ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
When the global financial crisis broke, people dubbed them the PIIGS. Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain were the ugly ducklings of Europe. They had inefficient economies, had been relying on EU funding and were heavily indebted. Today, most ...

Advance AM head of strategy steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... to a part of the dry zone," he said. The manager asked me, 'What happens if a natural disaster occurs?'" "I said to him, 'Sir, construction is easy. Destruction is easy. Reconstruction is the hard part, so you have to plan so that when you construct ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... searching the selection. The search item was not found. Do you want to search the remainder of the document?" Yes please, sir. Nah, it still couldn't find "patient" - or "patience" - in the Fed's monetary policy statement (that I copied and pasted into ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
The share market is stronger due to gains on Wall Street and signs of another Reserve Bank rate cut. The market opened higher after a strong session on Wall Street, sparked by a fall in the US dollar ahead of the US central bank's policy meeting, and ...

Super performs well in board gender diversity index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
The superannuation sector was one of the top performers in the latest rebalance of the Boardroom Diversity Index. Along with Sport, ASX100 companies and Cooperative Research Centres, Super was one of only four sectors to show gains of more than 5% in ...