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No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... 4.7% this year and the next. The BOE is sanguine about the inflation outlook too. Although "inflation is forecast to remain above the MPC's target throughout the forecast period... this effect is expected to diminish towards the end of the forecast period". ...

K2 slashes fees for three funds

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... 15.38%, and the performance fee hurdle rate for the international and small cap funds will increase to 6% per annum. The above changes will all come into effect from July 3. "Since inception, K2 has been recognised as a leading fund manager delivering ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... "recovery", instead it talked about an economic "expansion" - the most optimistic the BOJ had been in nine years - and of above-potential growth or a positive output gap. To wit, "Japan's economy has been turning toward a moderate expansion. Although ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... FY2017/18 growth forecast of 2.75%-3.75% (ScoMo's prediction should be largely in line with this) before heading to "a little above 3%". Last week's AiG PMI report show increasing expansion in the sectors it surveys - manufacturing up to 59.2 in April ...

Financial advisers should consider bitcoin as an asset class: Dunworth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... in recent years, according to an industry expert. This week the cryptocurrency broke record-highs when it started trading above USD$1680 against the US dollar. As at May this year, the total market cap of the bitcoin market has more than doubled to US$23 ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... Australian economy are little changed. Growth is expected to increase gradually over the next couple of years to a little above 3%." All well and good but the details contained in the bank's monetary policy statement released three days later (5 May) ...

Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... way, world growth is projected to rise from 3.1 percent in 2016 to 3.5 percent in 2017 and 3.6 percent in 2018, slightly above the October 2016 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast". That's good. However, while the IMF may have gotten its prediction ...

Pengana hires Morningstar manager ahead of merger vote

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... Callaghan joins Pengana from Morningstar, where he was a regional business development manager for the same regions mentioned above. He spent four years in that role, having previously been a director at 2Integrity. Callaghan was also strategy consultant ...

China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... manufacturing PMI fell to a reading of 51.2 in April from 51.8 in March. While this marked the 9th consecutive month of above 50 readings (expansion), it missed market expectations for a slight dip to 51.6. Slower rates of expansion in output, new orders ...

Expanding expansion in manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... increased to 59.2 in April from 57.5 in the previous month - marking the seventh consecutive month that the index had been above the 50 expansion/contraction line - with all seven of the sub-activity indices expanding. According to AiG, "Comments from ...