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    Don't Play The Losers Game

    Happy New Year and welcome to the first Investment Insights for 2012.

    The Managed Fund Merry-Go-Round

    Hello and welcome to this month’s edition of Investment Insights (the non market alert edition!)

    Investment Insights Alert - Financial Markets and the S&P Downgrade

    With recent reports on falling markets, it’s not hard to imagine many people being concerned about their investments, particularly with the memory of 2008/09 still very fresh in our minds.

    Will the Crisis Create a New Japan?

    The Earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 this year was almost unprecedented in its size and devastation. At magnitude 9 it was the equal fourth largest in recorded history and the Tsunami that followed literally swept away whole towns, with the world then watching both the humanitarian and nuclear crisis with a sense of sadness and concern. After the quake it didn’t take long for the finance industry to begin wondering how this might affect the country and Daniel Minihan wrote a post a few days after the event noting that there were people in both camps on how the economy would cope.

    European Sovereign Debt Crisis

    In our Autumn Newsletter titled “The Sovereign Debt Debacle – Phase 2 of the GFC?” we detailed the extent of the sovereign debt problems and the potential ramifications for investment markets. In this update we take a more detailed look at the Eurozone’s problems and discuss the implications for sharemarkets.

    The Sovereign Debt Debacle – Phase 2 of the GFC ?

    It is often said that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was caused by defaults on sub prime loans in the United States. Such defaults were merely symptoms of the underlying problem, rather than the cause, which of course was the over accumulation of debt by both businesses and consumers alike. Although investment markets have since seen significant appreciation since March 2009, it is now perhaps timely to review what, if any, improvements have really been made in the battle against the pernicious debt burden.

    Economic & market outlook - quarter ending 30 September 2009

    It is hard to believe that only 12 months ago the world was literally on the cusp of what literally could have been the second Great Depression. 

    The road to smarter investments

    Moore Stephens Melbourne has developed an investment strategy based on empirical research.

    New rescue plan

    Early Tuesday morning, March 24 2009, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner released the ‘Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets’ or PPIP for short.

    Bailouts and stimulus packages

    This months article, actually a small series of articles, looks at bailouts and stimulus packages.
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