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How much do you need to feel financially free?

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
NAB has put a dollar figure on the magic number Australians think they need to "significantly improve their lives forever." The average Australian believes they need $828,000 - up 9% over last year - to turn around their life financially. However, the ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... Preliminary estimates show Russia's GDP growth expanded by 1.5% in 2017 after a 0.2% contraction in the previous year. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts growth to accelerate to 2% this year. The unemployment rate has dropped to 5.2% in January ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... times - much more than its long-term average of 14.4 times - implying that it's around 27% overvalued. An article in The Economist magazine thinks it's greater: "The cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio of the American market, which uses a ten-year ...

Financial Standard journalist recognised in press awards

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... The CFA Institute Sally Wong, chief executive, Hong Kong Investment Funds Association Wu Chen, editorial director, The Economist Global Business Review "We would like to congratulate all the winners, and thank all the judges and participants of this ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... support between left and right in order to "unblock" the French economy, and to support the transatlantic alliance." (The Economist) In literal contrasts, Mademoiselle Le Pen "plans to cut legal immigration in France to 10,000 people a year, put a tax ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... Case in point, when China lowered its 2016 growth target, about this time last year, to 6.5%-7% from 7.0% in 2015, 'The Economist' magazine called it a "lofty target", stating that "many economists had reckoned that Chinese growth would be less than ...

A-dollar rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... commodity prices are on the rise and growth momentum is most major economies are improving. How high can the A$ go? The Economist magazine just released it's 'Big Mac' index that showed that Australia's currency is 15.5% undervalued against the greenback. ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... with Brexit). Even the Euro Stoxx 50 is up 0.38%, a big gain from RBS' predicted 10-20% correction. According to 'The Economist magazine, equities are the only game in town because "the returns in cash and bonds are pretty dismal". Let me add moral hazard ...

NZ Super Fund sells private equity investments

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... the sale price, and none of the sales involved New Zealand assets. Last month BNP Paribas Securities Services and The Economist Intelligence Unit published a paper looking at how the world's pension funds, superannuation funds and insurance companies ...

Alternative mandates eclipse equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... the investment priorities among Australian institutional investors. Last month BNP Paribas Securities Services and The Economist Intelligence Unit published a paper looking at how the world's pension funds, superannuation funds and insurance companies ...