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You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Fed taper in October last year and a 35.7% surged three months before Standard & Poor's took away one-A from the US of A's AAA credit rating in August 2011. Yes Virginia, the US dollar has come a long way since, baby. "Everybody wants her, everybody ...

Advice M&A activity set to soar in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... and Suncorp's Guardian Advice license had conditions imposed on it over concerns about the appointment of ex-advisers from AAA Financial Intelligence. As a consequence, "What Forte Asset Solutions is experiencing is seller's preference to sell to non- ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... boot), the money is instead invested in countries offering higher yields. Australia is one of these countries, and it's still AAA-rated too. And this is why the A$ may come down again if the RBA cuts rate today, but it won't stay down for long.

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... budget emergency and debt worries, Australia still has one of the lowest in the world on both - we haven't maintained our AAA credit rating for nothing, you know. And now's the time to borrow when money's cheap as chips - at current bond yields, Australia ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... boom," he said. Another indicator raising concerns for Australia is that even though we are one of a small group of 'super AAA sovereigns', overseas investors that have snapped up the overwhelming majority of Australian treasury issuances may change ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... that that would have a significant budget impact like it did in the global financial crisis, " it "could put the country's AAA rating at risk". And don't forget my ever-present neighbour who keeps telling me Australia has been in recession since 2008. ...

ASIC imposes conditions on Guardian Advice

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015
... banning individual advisers. ASIC's surveillance followed Guardian Advice's appointment of a number of ex-representatives of AAA Financial Intelligence and AAA Shares after the regulator cancelled their licences in February 2013. ASIC wanted to ensure ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... are also good for Australia - so is the weakening Australian dollar. Being one of the very few select countries still rated AAA says it all. But nah, Australia is doomed! We're already in an "income recession" and wishing ourselves into that formal definition ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... markets down with it - on reports that China would no longer accept as collateral for short term loans those bonds rated below AAA or those sold by issuers rated below AA. Not only this, there's speculation that the Politburo would dictate a "new normal" ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... end-2015. Westpac's rationale - Australian bonds yield premium over the US won't narrow because of investor demand for our AAA rating -- is as rational as Mr. Boyton's were when he made his prediction. But then wouldn't a strengthening dollar-A weaken ...