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Fundamentals return to the forefront in EM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... Michael Cirami, CFA portfolio manager co-director of global income, Marshall Stocker, CFA portfolio manager director of country research global income team and Bradford Godfrey, CFA institutional portfolio manager director of alternative & asset allocation ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... the initial spread of the coronavirus, is back on the defensive, with Seoul's bars and clubs ordered closed, as the country reported its biggest one-day increase in new infections in a month. "More than 50 cases have been linked to a 29-year-old ...

Trust in big four improves

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... liked, Clover said. Banks, he said, have a major role to play in extending forgiveness, lines of credit and supporting the country's small businesses. Greater Bank topped the index for the quarter for the first time, moving up four places since the December ...

TradeFloor acquires tech solutions

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... software and trading technology has made two acquisitions as it moves to build an independent trading ecosystem for the country's financial advisers. TradeFloor has acquired online stockbroker OpenMarkets as well as the technology behind CCUBE's wealth ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... social media engagement, but we expect future innovation will emerge from more value-added intellectual property as the country further adopts cloud computing and artificial intelligence." The pandemic has pushed those not already on a trajectory to ...

Chief economist update: Will emerging markets be first to emerge?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... They have lesser cases of infection and are unlocking lockdown restrictions (notably, China) earlier than their developed country counterparts. Then again, emerging market currencies remain under pressure against the US dollar and this will persist for ...

Super switching three times higher: CFS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... its peak just over two months ago," CFS said. "The market reaction was in response to news that businesses across the country should prepare to scale down their operations." CFS said it experienced the highest number of switches to cash, at 65%, and ...

Is it really as bad as it seems?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... economy that got us here, which should act as a source of confidence. Whether it would be more beneficial to open the country back up depends on an individual's perspective. According to the Australian government's modelling of the impact of COVID-19 ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Aussie passive and active equity strategies have been put to the test, with Morningstar assessing how the country's small and large-cap managers have fared during the highs of 2019 and the lows of 2020. The coronavirus crash has renewed debate on ...

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... survey's record that eclipses the declines witnessed during the global financial crisis and the tsunami that hit the country in 2011. Similar to the US and the Eurozone (and perhaps, every other country in the world), measures implemented to lessen ...