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ClearBridge launches unhedged fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
... fund invests in 30 to 60 securities that typically have predictable income streams and provide investors with long-term inflation-linked growth. "The decision to create an unhedged version of the popular infrastructure income fund reflects feedback from ...

Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... the unemployment rate steadily improving from 4.5% this year to 3.8% in 2022 and 3.5% in 2023. The Fed's PCE price inflation - its favoured measure - forecast that while "inflation has increased notably in recent months... and will likely remain ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... pandemic and into a recovery phase, which has now started. We need to really anchor the recovery. We always talk about inflation anchoring and we are not oblivious to that. But the recovery needs to be firm, solid and sustainable." These were ECB president ...

Chief economist update: US inflation may not be as transitory as the Fed believes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... nearly 1 million gain (978,000 to be exact), but sold off three days later when the same agency revealed that headline inflation rose by 0.8% over the month of April - the biggest increase since June 2009 and four times above market expectations for ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
Inflation? What inflation? We need inflation. While many, if not most, of its central bank peers - led by the Fed -- are pushing back against inflation concerns, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) cannot seem to drive growth in the country's consumer prices ...

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... too did the yield on 10-year US Treasuries while the equity market's benchmark indices closed on the up and up as inflation expectations in Uncle Sam's county eased, calming concerns that the US Federal Reserve would reduce its policy accommodation ...

Chief economist update: RBA cash rate on ice until 2024

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... jobless rate to continue to fall "to be around 5% at the end of this year and around 4.5% at the end of 2022". As for inflation, it's expected to rise temporarily "above 3% in the June quarter because of the reversal of some COVID-19-related price ...

Magellan launches FuturePay

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... of the outperformance to a support trust (reserve). In falling markets where the portfolio isn't keeping up with inflation adjusted target, the support trust is available to help and lend support back to the FuturePay fund. Cairns explained the support ...

Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... advanced economies should keep monetary policy settings accommodative and allow "temporary overshooting of headline inflation... provided underlying price pressures are contained". As for fiscal policy, the OECD advises governments to continue income ...

Chief economist update: The UK's going OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... significant drop from the 7.75% it predicted three months earlier. But with indications of stronger growth also comes rising inflation pressures. Measured inflation in the UK has sequentially accelerated over the past three months - the annual rate of ...