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Liquidity strength in CTAs

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... Financial Standard. CTAs do not act on forecasting, instead making decisions as trends emerge and, in Keary's opinion, offering true diversification to investment decisions that do model around forecasting. "If fundamental forecasting is the key driver ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... events of last year - before QE2 came along - when deflation was rearing its ugly head. But this time, the jury is still out. True believers in the coming of another recession may disagree. They'll point to the myriads of indicators and the financial ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... open his mouth and the scaremongers are putting the "no more options" word in it. It'll certainly be disastrous if this is true. A war to fight and no more ammunition. You better save that last bullet for your head. Ahh... but knowing me, I was able ...

Advisers prep for 'back-to-basics' investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... behaviour this week. "Put simply, if you don't understand an investment, you can't understand the risks. This still rings true and we expect to see highly-leveraged or speculative investments continue to fall out of favour," said Nick Langton, general ...

Wolf of Wall Street can't put a price on value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... process, the system for getting rich, if it is not grounded in the highest level of ethics and integrity and you're not staying true to who you are, it will not last." In 1998 Belfort was indicted for securities fraud and money laundering, spending just ...

Government takes no sides in industry-retail super split

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... according to the source. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, said it was not true that super funds would be forced to charge a flat fee for all their products under the proposed system. "The issue of ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... anxiety, it came to pass - the powers-that-are in Washington agreed to raise the nation's US$14,300,000,000,000 debt ceiling. True to script the negotiations went on, and on, and on into 11th hour with the suspense killing financial markets despite not ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... to blink. TheAge dot com's headline this morning says it all, "US stocks hammered by debt doubts". If you want to get the true reading of the financial market's pulse over this debt issue - there's no other place to look but at the US bond market. Re ...

You can't handle the truth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... with debts and the financial markets? Better pop some more pills into your system - more is in store. If it's too good to be true, it's usually a stretch. There was good news - fantabolous news --out of debt-drowning Europe after the close of last week's ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... gains achieved by private equity, but the way the private equity industry reports performance can grossly exaggerate the true numbers. "Investors considering this sector, should look beyond the headline figures [and] at what lies behind them, and apply ...