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BUSSQ sees strength in niche super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2022
... to what is sensible." Like the leadership of CareSuper, First Super and legalsuper, Taylor doesn't subscribe to the adage that bigger is always better. "This idea of following the banking model and putting all of the small super funds into four or ...

Advisers filter clients via ethical lens

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
... regulation on the financial advice industry has perhaps pushed the shift to an ethically minded culture. Crabbe pointed to an adage that posits a business with a robust ethics culture will see less need for the regulator to enforce heavy-handed rules ...

Chief economist update: Money buys happiness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... economy grow stronger. The result of the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey disproves the aged-old adage that "money doesn't buy happiness". Australian consumer sentiment surged by 11.9% to a reading of 105 index points ...

Chief economist update: Don't fight the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... underwrites continued gains in the US equity market as it maintains TINA (there is no alternative) and warns against that old adage, "don't fight the Fed".

More consolidation to come: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... to argue that Australia needs as many as 200 superannuation funds or 40,000 plus investment options. But that well-worn adage remains true: past performance is not necessarily a good guide to future performance," he said. Work must also be done to ensure ...

Best in show, but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... group insurance offering caters to new members of all occupations would also be required, the report said. "The age old adage that past performance is no guarantee of future performance is only true of investment markets in a narrow sense... The adage ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
We might just be heading to witness once again the truth about the old adage on Wall Street that "a bull market doesn't die of old age, the Fed murders it." As expected, the US Federal Reserve raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%-2.5% ...

Chief economist update: Bull markets don't die of old age

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... China's slowdown or Kim's nukes or Saudi Arabia's reported "assassination". To paraphrase that old Wall Street adage, bull markets don't die of old age, the Fed murders them!

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... 6241.46 points (January) - by May 14 it had almost prompted me to declare that 2018 is one of the years that the "sell in May" adage didn't apply. Apart from the uptrend generating its own upwards momentum, Australian domestic fundamentals, while ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... same investors quickly reinvest their money in the market, causing stock prices to rise." But this calls to mind that old adage, "so goes January, so goes the rest of the year" - specifically, the first trading week of January as it had done so in 2017. ...
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