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Private equity sector resilient

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... several years, the industry has finally normalised through the exits of the massive deals done in 2006 and 2007, like a snake digesting an elephant-sized meal. So while not quite the blowout of 2014 and 2015, last year still delivered an impressive showing ...

More data leads to more bad decisions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... human brain, she said, has also not evolved to deal with long-term threats. While we will all instinctively run away from a snake, we won't have the same reaction to long-term, complex threats like global warming or an impoverished retirement. "At this ...

Of horse trades and the January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... fishing. Financial business also have the potential to be unstable." Gulp. Then again, remember last year, the "Year of the Snake"? It was supposed to be even worse. TheA Courier Mail published some last year: Singapore's 'Grand Master' Tan Khoon Yong ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... phrase means "may prosperity be with you". We may just need this well wish this year... for this year is 'The Year of the Snake'. Quoting Taiwanese astrologer Tsai Shang-chi, the age.com.au printed that, "In Chinese mythology, snakes were often associated ...

Wrong answer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a snake!" The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt about the knee. "What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... for some more time to come. Throw the dice, land on positive data, climb up the ladders. Land on a negative report, the snake bites you on the bum.
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