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Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... central bank at a relative advantage - a zero sum game if you will. It's a different story for the stock market. The FTSE-100 index underperformed its peers, dropping by 14.3% in 2020. This compares with gains of 16.3% and 16.0% in the S&P 500 and ...

Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
... (362,000). The S&P500 closed 16.3% in the black for the calendar year 2020, outperforming the Stoxx-50 index (-5.1%), the FTSE-100 index (-14.3%), and the Nikkei-225 index (+16.0%) - more than double its average annual return from 1956 to 2019 of around ...

Chief economist update: More money for reimposed lockdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... billion (expectations were for £100 billion addition) - but kept the Bank Rate steady at 0.10%. Money and more money sent the FTSE-100 index to a near three-week high. The BOE's decision factored in renewed restrictions that are expected to in place ...

BetaShares tinkers with ETF lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... (DHHF) will shed its 10% allocation to defensive assets to 100% growth assets. The fees will be 19 bps. Lastly, the BetaShares FTSE RAFI U.S. 1000 ETF (ASX: QUS) will change its index from FTSE RAFI U.S. 1000 Index to the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index. ...

Chief economist update: Good or bad news is good Wall Street news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... 6.3% this year to date - miles ahead compared with the sharp losses of 15.1% in the Euro Stoxx-50 index and 23.4% in the FTSE-100, or even the Nikkei-225's almost flat (-0.1%) performance. Not to mention (but I have to), the Nasdaq composite index's ...

Vanguard launches new ESG offerings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... our existing Ethically Conscious funds, which were launched in September 2018." The fund is benchmarked to the custom-built FTSE Australia 300 Choice Index and seeks to track the return of this index before taking into account management fees, expenses ...

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... index up by 10.1% this year to date - outperforming the S&P 500 (9.4%); the Nikkei-225 (-0.4%); the Stoxx-50 (-11.9%); the FTSE-100 (-20.4%); and the All ordinaries index (6.8%). China's debt market also offers better returns. Chinese 10-year bonds ...

Half of UK pension funds seek buy-out

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
About half of all UK defined benefit pension funds are now targeting a buy-out as their long-term objective, new research shows. A survey of 100 DB pension scheme trustees by consultancy Hymans Robertson revealed the number of pension funds aiming for ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top despite recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... years) and services sectors (up to 58.8 - the best reading in five years) continued to gain momentum. Not surprisingly, the FTSE-100 has also recovered. The benchmark index has rallied by 17.2% from the nine-month low recorded in March. However, the ...

Chief economist update: UK plans for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... and the composite PMI (47.7) have also recovered from their April lows, 13.4 and 13.8, respectively. Not surprisingly, the FTSE-100 has also recovered. The benchmark index has rallied by 23.3% from the nine-month low recorded in March. However, the index ...