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Corporates can help solve retirement issue: BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
Larry Fink has told chief executives they must embrace a greater responsibility to help employees navigate retirement, highlighting it as a key challenge to the world's future prosperity. In his annual letter to the chief executives of companies backed ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... prophecy as buyers wait for even cheaper prices. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) should be planning for an interest rate cut at this point in time before the roof falls on property. Homebuyers can afford to wait for property prices to come down some ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... momentum in the global economy. These uncertainties have had already prompted a change of stance at the Fed (a pause?); a cut in the reserve requirement ratio - and promises of more monetary and fiscal stimuli - in China; and expectations that the central ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... tonight's vote tells us nothing about what it does support." David Cameron must be thanking his lucky stars when he decided to cut clean and leave his predecessor to deal with what has become an on-going fiasco that is Brexit. The former UK Prime ...

VanEck drops fees on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
Australia's first China A-shares ETF has knocked 12bps off its annual management fees, after a decision taken by the board in the United States. The VanEck Vectors ChinaAMC CSI 300 ETF (ASX: CETF) will now charge 0.60% instead of the 0.72%. The ...

Best in show, but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... Productivity Commission's recommendation of a best-in-show list was introduced tomorrow, which super funds would make the cut? If performance were the key metric used to determine which MySuper products are shortlisted, latest Rainmaker analysis ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... up from 41.7% a month earlier (prior to the Fed's 18-19 December 2018 FOMC meeting). What's more, the likelihood of a rate cut at its 19 January meeting (based on fed funds futures trading) has increased to 17.7% (from 14.4% a month ago) while the chances ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... trading shows that US interest rates would remain unchanged through to the end of 2019 - with a small chance that the Fed could CUT rates by 25 bps this year or the next.

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... Our resident chief economist explains why the continued drop in property prices could force the RBA to defy consensus and cut rates. First, some global context. US Federal Reserve has hinted that it will be more dovish with regards to monetary policy ...

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... hit as its economy and its stockmarket declined. So much so, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) recently announced a 1% cut in the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) - 0.5% on January 15 and 0.5% on January 25 - and estimates to release around 800 billion ...