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Demand for illiquid assets surge: Aeon Investments

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2023
Research has revealed investors and family offices are gradually turning towards illiquid assets, including private debt, to shelter from the global macro storm. Aeon Investments conducted a survey of family offices controlling a total of $98.4 billion ...

Chief economist update: The pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... that recovery has become sustainable. Two down days could be the pause that refreshes. You should be dancin', yeah! (Bee Gees)

Trick or treat?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... 7th of June - a few days before the 18-19 FOMC meeting. "I started a joke, which started the whole world crying..." (Bee Gees). And sure enough, though Uncle Ben's June statement was hedged: "We would expect to slow/moderate later this year and through ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... the European crisis the same way they did - with panic - last year and the year before that. Or, in the words of the Bee Gees, "have they given up and all gone home to bed, thinking those who once existed must be dead"?

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... Slovakia might still come up with a hilarious punch line that could see the whole world crying. "I started a joke..." Bee Gees

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
"I started a joke, which started the whole world crying..." -Bee Gees Just when the Fed appeared to have quieted things down, someone screamed, 'boo'. And in the current jittery state the financial markets are in - investors will shoot first and ask ...

The Fed did it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... more stimulation. "I started a joke, which started the whole world crying, but I didn't see that the joke was on me." (Bee Gees) And so it came to pass. A day after the Fed pandered to the market's whims, the joke was on the market. True to script, it ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... Perhaps we are living in a world of fools, where the sane man is the fool, the idiot and worse, the pauper. Remember the Bee Gees? 'Cause we're living in a world of fools, breaking us down, when they all should let us be.' And this the day after - 11 ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... will remember Massachusetts." It might as well be President Obama and the Democrats singing this song instead of the Bee Gees. Suddenly, the Democrats are on notice. It's no longer a one-way street. I still don't' know how this would play out on Capitol ...
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