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Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
With one tweet, US President Donald Trump reversed all of Wall Street's gains... and then some. "....I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It ...

Why indexing is big business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... trillion benchmarked. MSCI, which purely operates in equity indexing, has about US$13.9 trillion benchmarked. Conversely, Bloomberg benchmarks US$14.4 trillion of fixed income assets to its indices. Across the board, the majority of strategies are active. ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... attention on ESG and smart beta indices, these own less than 6% of the market combined, Redding says. For an index provider, Bloomberg LP head of portfolio and index sales for Asia Pacific, Norman Tweeboom, says it's increasingly important to show ...

BlackRock strengthens real assets team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... investment into new power generation in Asia Pacific - or US$3.5 trillion - will flow into renewables by 2040 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance," the manager said in a statement. "With the move of Charlie Reid to Sydney, BlackRock is poised to ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
When the going gets tough, China's authorities get going. Fresh data that showed the Chinese economy slowed to 6.5% in the year to the September quarter shouldn't have generated big concerns - despite headlines that it is the slowest growth ...

Chief economist update: Blame and trim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... that's thinking that the Fed has "gone wild". Financial markets have now trimmed their fed rate hike expectations. As per Bloomberg,"Money markets are now fully pricing in only two rate increases by the end of 2019 and around 80 percent of a third ...

Chief economist update: An Indian surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... August 1. The RBI's decision defied consensus expectations for a follow-up rate hike wherein which, according to a Bloomberg poll ahead of the decision, only nine out of 49 respondents called for no change in interest rates. These predictions were ...

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... put resource against," he says. Core exposure ETFs are the products that will be attractive to instos, he said at the Bloomberg ETF Conference yesterday. "In the independent [financial adviser] space, I think over the time you will have the creation ...

Elon Musk charged with securities fraud

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... slang term for marijuana to amuse his rapper girlfriend Grimes, the SEC alleged in a media conference as reported by Bloomberg News. The SEC has appointed two litigators and the investigation continues.

Aussie fund managers face machine learning challenges

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... investment management firms lag behind Japan when it comes to using machine learning in investment strategies, a new Bloomberg survey shows. The poll of 450 participants comprising traders, portfolio managers, analysts and market data practitioners in ...