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BetaShares launches crypto-focused ETF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
... crypto sector in a familiar, liquid and cost-effective ETF structure," BetaShares chief executive Alex Vynokur said. "Mark Twain is famous for saying that 'during the gold rush it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business'. CRYP will take a ...

Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... boom and bust, subprime mortgage crisis, sovereign debt crisis, SARS, and I think all are similar and there is a great Mark Twain quote that says 'history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes'," he said. "The lesson from those crises ...

Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... its precedents. For as Rudyard Kipling, in his Barrack-room ballads (1892): "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Especially not when Trump and Xi are holding a contest on who can pee higher and farther.

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... epic in itself, it invalidates Rudyard Kipling's (re-phrased) quote: "Oh, North is North, and South is South, and never the twain shall meet." Kim's one small step could be one big step for Korea, Asia and the world towards de-nuclearisation and peace. ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... grown from 163.2% in 2010 to 165.6% in 2013 to a record 199.7% in the September quarter of last year. To paraphrase Mark Twain, history may rhyme but it should not repeat (given learned lessons from the past). Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and ...

Emerging emerging markets concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014

The twain could not meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... rise on "strong corporate earnings". The same way that it would on "continued hopes for central-bank intervention." But the twain could not meet. Corporate earnings need an expanding economy to be strong. Fed intervention needs the opposite - a deteriorating ...

Seeking equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... problem we now know as the global financial crisis. Supply is being reduced. Demand is being bolstered. Eventually, the twain shall meet and equilibrium achieved.

Evolution of super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
Ne'er the twain shall meet but retail fund chief Brian Bissaker from Colonial First State and industry fund chief Ian Silk from Australian Super, shared centre stage to talk about how the industry can best serve financial planners, its members and the ...
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