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Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... were even more workers out of work that month - 870K versus the initial estimate of 701K. To top these all, the CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - has fallen to a reading of 27.98 on the day which is the lowest reading since 26 February this year (two ...

Volatility continues to drive investors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... significant movement in the market, volatility also increased. As measured by the average daily movement in the All Ordinaries Index, volatility hit 1.6% in April, compared to just 0.4% last April. Further, expected future volatility - as measured by ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... Australia's biggest listed companies would be fine, he said, as they are very liquid, however, smaller companies in the index could suffer. "As you creep outside the top 20, and certainly outside the top 50, you could see some of those companies really ...

Pinnacle boutique launches Cayman fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... to S&P 500 in March and 14.04% outperformance in February. It has also outperformed the HFRI Macro Discretionary Thematic Index YTD and since February 2019 inception. "The focus of the fund in investing only in liquid products and its policy of no net ...

Industry fund swaps insurers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
An industry fund is moving from MLC Life to OnePath as its life insurer effective July 1 and has notified members of changes to its offering. Energy Super has chosen OnePath after a rigorous tender process, the fund told members, while notifying them ...

MySuper bounces back

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... offered by not-for-profit funds are performing strongly in the wake of COVID-19, with Rainmaker's SelectingSuper MySuper index recording an average return of 2.2% across April. The April monthly result is the best since June last year, and shows ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This relative optimism is reflected in the sharp drop in the VStoxx (Euro Stoxx 50 Volatility Index) - the eurozone's version of the fear gauge - from a near-GFC high reading of 85.62 points on the 16th of March ...

Markets slump as US jobless claims hit 30m

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... investment strategy Matt Sherwood said the poor data had resulted in heavy losses around the world overnight. "The MSCI World Index declined by -0.9% overnight with losses in all Northern Hemisphere markets and all sectors," he said. "Among the latter ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... their bottom, the S&P/ASX 200 has only risen around 20%, with the pandemic's impact on our big four banks pulling the index back. While Aussie investors have not reaped similar benefits to the rebounds seen abroad, analysts still believe there are ...

Chief economist update: No cheers as RBA hits inflation target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Mission accomplished! This would have been the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) self-congratulatory exclamation after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that annual headline CPI inflation accelerated to 2.2% in the March quarter ...