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Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... They extrapolate current trends to infinity and expect the powers-that-are to sit, stand aside and just watch their economies burn. But as we've been witnesses to this year, they didn't do that. The most well-known of course is the Fed's QE3 and Super ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... France. Oops, sorry wrong news. What's not supposed to happen are the equity market boards lighting up mostly green when economies around the globe remain in a sorry state. Just ask Markit Economics. The JP Morgan's global manufacturing PMI ("a composite ...

QE3 will be different

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... impact is because we are starting off from a better place, if you think of where the world was when QE1 was launched, economies were at much weaker states and risk asset pricing was at much lower levels. "The criticism of QE1 and QE2 was that you saw ...

Welcome to the QE Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012

VicSuper and Vision Super in merger talks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... superannuation of more than 350,000 Victorians. Vision Super's chairman Rob Spence said the merger could provide greater economies of scale in the key areas of investments and member services. "Vision Super and VicSuper have strong alignment within both ...

Investment management hit by downturn

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... A cocktail of market blows since the GFC which led super funds to reduce costs by going passive, amalgamate through economies-of-scale, and the internalisation of portfolio management by larger funds - plus reduced availability of capital - has meant ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... spending. But it isn't only America's domestics that the Fed should be worried about. In this world of inter-connected economies and markets, weakness in America (and Europe) are slowing growth elsewhere and creating a negative feedback loop. News out ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... States fuelling hopes for new stimulus measures were overshadowed by concerns over growth in the world's two biggest economies. The euro, which surged on Friday after the European Central Bank (ECB) announced a bond-buying plan to help under-pressure ...

YBR posts a $6.83m loss

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... revenue strongly against this trend," it said. In FY 2013 the YBR said it will focus on revenue growth that leverages the economies of scale in the expense base to its full capacity. This is an updated version of an article published earlier today.

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... 2009 bottom) - but never have I seen anything like this. By like this, I mean the outlook for financial markets and economies hanging in the balance by what Ben and Mario say or do. It was easier picking back then when real events send markets rallying ...