ATLAHWorldwide on Nov 29, 2011
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Dr. James David Manning takes on the Bankers
I haven't had Dr. Manning on for ages, this is a classic sermon from him.
ATLAHWorldwide on Nov 29, 2011
ATLAHWorldwide on Nov 29, 2011
Dealing with mounting e-waste in India
Whilst the recyclers might be recovering plenty of copper from the wires, and some gold and palladium from the circuit boards, most of the small amounts of silver used in each device are still ending up in a landfill.
AlJazeeraEnglish on Jan 18, 2012
AlJazeeraEnglish on Jan 18, 2012
GFMS Gold Survey Update 2 - Philip Newman
Market woes chip at super nest eggs
Of course if you had a SMSF and invested those funds in an asset who's value has never fallen to zero in the last 5,000 years your fund would have return in excess of 10% in 2011.
From The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au)
THE average Australian superannuation fund lost money in 2011 due to the sharemarket's poor performance, with analysts expecting a 2 per cent decrease in median ''balanced'' funds.
Conservative funds and cash funds - which allocate money to defensive assets such as fixed interest and bonds, where returns are normally lower - outperformed high-growth funds.
Paul Saliba, chief investment officer at wealth management firm Lachlan Partners, expects the outlook for 2012 to be similar to last year, with low-risk assets outperforming the sharemarket because of the risks facing the global economy.
''There is a clear risk for equity returns in a world of weak economic growth, deleveraging of both consumers and governments worldwide,'' he said.
The debt crisis in Europe was a ''dire risk'', he said, and ''unless something changes - and on all reports it's hard to see how it can change with any speed - then investors are going to be gun shy''.
While government bonds were the biggest gainers last year, Mr Saliba said corporate bonds should do well this year as people realised that ''companies are not going to fail en masse''.
According to superannuation research and consultancy firm Chant West, the negative super returns of 2011 compared with positive returns of 4.7 per cent in 2010 and 15 per cent in 2009, but were far better than losses of 21.5 per cent during the late-2008 global financial crisis.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/money/super-and-funds/market-woes-chip-at-super-nest-eggs-20120119-1q7az.html#ixzz1k46XZ9oc
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From The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au)
THE average Australian superannuation fund lost money in 2011 due to the sharemarket's poor performance, with analysts expecting a 2 per cent decrease in median ''balanced'' funds.
Conservative funds and cash funds - which allocate money to defensive assets such as fixed interest and bonds, where returns are normally lower - outperformed high-growth funds.
Paul Saliba, chief investment officer at wealth management firm Lachlan Partners, expects the outlook for 2012 to be similar to last year, with low-risk assets outperforming the sharemarket because of the risks facing the global economy.
''There is a clear risk for equity returns in a world of weak economic growth, deleveraging of both consumers and governments worldwide,'' he said.
The debt crisis in Europe was a ''dire risk'', he said, and ''unless something changes - and on all reports it's hard to see how it can change with any speed - then investors are going to be gun shy''.
While government bonds were the biggest gainers last year, Mr Saliba said corporate bonds should do well this year as people realised that ''companies are not going to fail en masse''.
According to superannuation research and consultancy firm Chant West, the negative super returns of 2011 compared with positive returns of 4.7 per cent in 2010 and 15 per cent in 2009, but were far better than losses of 21.5 per cent during the late-2008 global financial crisis.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/money/super-and-funds/market-woes-chip-at-super-nest-eggs-20120119-1q7az.html#ixzz1k46XZ9oc
More Argie Bargie over Oil and Gas
The war was always about the oil, particularly now with Brittan's North Sea oil wells running dry, never the wishes of some sheep herders.
AlJazeeraEnglish on Jan 19, 2012
AlJazeeraEnglish on Jan 19, 2012
Royal Navy in South Georgia:
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Weekend Chillout - The approaching storm
With the European debt downgrades, the World Bank's lower growth forecasts and the covert Iranian War 2012 has certainly started off with many clouds on the horizon. Lets just hope those clouds have a silver lining.
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