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Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... meeting (from four three months earlier) and those predicting higher interest rates by 2023 rising from seven out of 18 in March to 13 at the recently-concluded meeting - with 11 officials expecting not one, but two, hikes. To be sure, Wall Street's ...

Index fund tops risk-adjusted rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... Funds report, delivering the best performance in the international equities high performance category in the three years to March 2021. NDQ also ranked first in the risk-adjusted category, followed by T. Rowe Price's Global Equity Fund and Legg Mason ...

ASIC drops Regal action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... standards." Last year, Regal's Atlantic Absolute Return suffered from the COVID-19 market volatility having fallen 58.6% in March then rising 12.5% in May. The fund has since regained significant losses and is returning 21.20% over the financial year ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... rise above $1 million."... and as per the ABS: "All capital cities recorded a rise in residential property prices in the March quarter 2021, led by Sydney (+6.1%) and Melbourne (+5.1%). Property prices also rose in Perth (+5.2%), Brisbane (+4.0%), Adelaide ...

L1 Capital launches activist fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... activism. The Catalyst Fund, which launches on July 1, will be led by James Hawkins, who joined L1 Capital as a partner in March. The high-conviction equity fund invests long-only in the top 200 Australian public companies, using shareholder activism ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... under the pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) with a total envelope of â,¬1,850 billion until at least the end of March 2022 and, in any case, until it judges that the coronavirus crisis phase is over". Sure, activity and leading economic ...

Macquarie sweeps Investment Leadership Awards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... for exchange traded products (ETPs), managed accounts and sustainable strategies underpin much of the growth. As at end March 2021, there were almost 1000 Australian and global fund managers competing in Australia for institutional and wholesale investments ...

LIC restructures to ETMF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... listed in 2016, and Shields said within six months the portfolio managers regretted their decision. This was because by 22 March 2017 the LIC was trading at a 13% discount. After a series of buybacks and options and a merger proposal from Sandon which ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... To be sure, latest data show that Japanese annual headline inflation remains in deflation (-0.4% in April from -0.2% in March) - the seventh straight month of falling prices. So does core inflation. Its annual growth rate has remained negative for the ...

Sunsuper, QSuper appoint leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... the list. Naming the leadership team is the latest development in the merger process, which was officially announced in March. This was followed by confirmation that Reilly would lead the merged fund, with current QSuper chair Don Luke as chair of the ...