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Chief economist update: The Fed's force is with us

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018

... $64 million question is if this presages a bear market in the making - technically defined as a 20% or more drop in US equities. Has good news (on the economy and in terms of the Fed's efforts to return monetary policy towards normality) turned bad? ...

SMSFs shifting focus for diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018

... traded international stocks last year by SMSFs. "International trading surged nearly 100% over the previous year, with US equities and US ETFs the most traded equity instruments on international markets throughout the year,'' NAB director of SMSF and ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017

... Watching Wall Street break one record high after another make it very tempting to join the herd or raise allocation of US equities in portfolios. There's the fear of missing out (FOMO) and then there's the shorts that, time and again in the current cycle ...

Fintech exposes SMSFs to global shares

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017

... matter most in the future," he said. Stake also announced the beta launch of Stake Premium, which gives SMSFs access to US equities without charging brokerage fees. Citing data from the Financial Services Council, only 0.6% of SMSFs are invested in overseas ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017

... as usual on Wall Street. The sum of all fears - well, nearly all - many investors braced for didn't quite add up. US equities, the yield on 10-year US Treasuries and the US dollar, they all fell down last week as investors feared an escalation of tensions ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017

... breach of the US debt ceiling and, lately, Hurricane Harvey - singly or combined - couldn't dent positive sentiment for US equities. The S&P 500 index is up 10.6% this year to date and a mere 0.2% down from the record high reached on 7 August; The Dow ...

Japanese broker targets Aussie SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER | MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017

... Japanese customers to trade Japanese equities and mutual funds. Later it added international products such as FX and US equities. In 2009, Monex acquired BOOM Securities in Hong Kong - reportedly the oldest online broker in Asia. In 2011, Monex acquired ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017

... equity market - perhaps, the rationale behind the old adage "three hikes and stumble" on Wall Street (that is, that US equities sell off after the Fed's third rate hike). But the Fed has already raised rates three times in this current cycle - December ...

Henderson appoints investment director

ALEX BURKE | WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017

... investment manager and co-head of the North American department of Baillie Gifford. He was also investment director - US equities at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, US investment manager at Britannic Asset Management and a US equity analyst at ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017

Don't you just love it when things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell ...

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Federal Court lifts Merhi's travel ban

KARREN VERGARA

Former financial adviser Ferras Merhi is now free to travel as the Federal Court lifted travel restraint orders imposed one year ago.

Hostplus delivers double-digit FY26 returns

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Hostplus Balanced (MySuper) option delivered members 10.8% for the financial year 2025-26, while the Indexed Balanced option and the High Growth option returned members 11.06% and 12.61% respectively.

ASIC levy estimates jump 19% as regulator ramps up funding

VINNY VUCAGO

ASIC has lifted its estimated industry funding levy by almost 20% for 2025-26, with regulated entities expected to shoulder $400.5 million in regulatory costs as the corporate watchdog expands its supervision and enforcement activities.

GQG bleeds over US$7bn in FUM in June

MATTHEW WAI

Despite recording positive investment performance, GQG Partners observed a significant outflow, with net outflows of $4.62 billion recorded in the month of June, as FUM slipped to $225 billion at June end, compared to $235.5 billion in the month prior.

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