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Pengana raises $150m for AI-focused LIT

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2026
... functionality. Pengana chief executive Russel Pillemer said the fund has already contracted investments in ByteDance and Handshake. "Many compelling AI and AI-related businesses remain private during their highest growth phases. By the time these companies ...

Chief economist update: US-China tensions escalate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... covid-19 pandemic becomes history. Besides social isolation protocols prevent Trump and Xi to even touch each other for a handshake. Or... could it be that Trump is applying the exact same thing he accused former US President Obama of when he tweeted ...

Chief economist update: Australian recession here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." This quote, attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth - daughter of former US President Teddy Roosevelt - had me struggling on whether or not to submit my daily rant for today. ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised forecasts for a synchronised slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... continues to this day - right on the eve of another Sino-Yankee meeting slated for October 10 - when optimism for a handshake are, instead, followed by an escalation of tensions. No need to reinvent the wheel, here's Factset's summary: "Bloomberg ...

Chief economist update: The tweet that reignited the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... which - since the beginning of the year and up to the minute before the tweet - expected a deal on trade was just a handshake away. "For 10 months, China has been paying Tariffs to the USA of 25% on 50 Billion Dollars of High Tech, and 10% on 200 Billion ...

Chief economist update: EUr next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
Just when we're just a handshake away from a Sino-US trade deal, another war on trade this way comes. US President Donald Trump must be wringing his hands at how he succeeded in making China kowtow - er, compromise - to his demands. Trump's ...

Fund managers must offer genuine partnerships

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... explained. The philosophy has the buy-in of chief executive Tim Carver who agreed to come on board with Jain over a handshake when the two met in Manly in March to discuss what they thought a funds management business should look like. Both men are currently ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
As Yogi Berra famously quoted, "it ain't over till it's over." Elvis is still in the building. Optimism over a Greek bailout deal has hit a roadblock (again), prompting financial markets to give up some of the gains made over the past few days. But ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... been. Or is it the connect between Chinese president Xi Jinping and US president Barrack Obama at the APEC summit or his handshake connect with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe? Ahh yes, Virginia, you know where I'm going with this don't you? It's ...

December taper, pants on fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
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