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Chief economist update: Hot flashes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... This is the overriding conclusion that could be derived from the flash estimates of the IHS Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) surveys conducted for the US, the Eurozone, the UK and Japan. The PMI is based on monthly surveys of carefully selected ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... of 4.5% (from 5.0% predicted three months before). The Fed predicts a temporary acceleration in inflation (the PCE price index) to 2.4% this year, before easing to 2.0% in 2022 and 2.1% in 2023. However, this runs counter to sharply rising inflation ...

Hyperion ETF goes live

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... unlisted fund which is 0.70% per annum management fee and a 20% performance fee above the benchmark (MSCI World Accumulation Index). The Hyperion Australian Growth Companies Fund delivered the highest return in the large-cap segment of 18.9% per annum ...

Active funds quell passive flows

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... countries. The Australian active fund management industry may have a more successful defence against the growing movement toward index strategies, the Tidal Forces report found, after analysing hundreds of millions of trades on the Calastone global network. ...

Chief economist update: When 6%-plus growth is deemed too low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... latest Caixin China PMI surveys back Li's warning. Although still at a reading indicating expansion, the composite output index registered its third straight month of decline to a reading of 51.7 in February as "demand and supply in both the manufacturing ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... the Fed chief's prior pronouncements that any uptick in inflation would be temporary. The Fed expects the PCE price index - the central bank's favoured inflation measure - to grow by 2.4% in 2021 (from 1.8% projected in December 2020) before ...

JANA hires from NYSE

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2021
... digital transformation team. Ann-Mary Rajanayagam spent over four years at the NYSE as a program manager in equities, options, index and bonds. Prior to this, she was a project manager and business analyst at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, also in New ...

REITs extend performance struggles

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... "In between these funds are other options including portfolios of Australian listed property trusts (the S&P/ASX A-REITS Index returned 5.1% p.a. over three years), international property securities funds (both currency hedged and currency unhedged) ...

Managed accounts FUM inch to $100bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... for the second half of 2020 were significantly more positive than the first half. The value of the ASX/S&P200 Accumulation Index rose 13.2% over the period, (compared with the decrease of 10.42% decrease in the prior six months). This will have materially ...

Chief economist update: ECB gives PEPP talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... monetary policy settings unchanged - but its PEPP (pandemic emergency purchase programme) talk that sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index on the up and up. The Eurozone's equity market index rose to its highest level in a year and three weeks to 3,845.60 ...