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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street mostly rose as gains in consumer shares helped boost benchmarks back near records. At 0813 AEDT on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,955. In ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
Another rate cut is coming, another rate cut is coming. Bloomberg's survey shows (tada!) 18 out of 29 economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to follow-up February's 25 bps reduction in the official cash rate to 2.25% with another 25 bps ...

Altair AM signs equity mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... cut next month, despite consensus view of the next rate cut being in May. Stephen Roberts, the fund's in-house chief economist, wrote in his February briefing the likelihood of another 25bp rate cut following this month's surprise rate cut. "The RBA ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... -- busted in the "properties tab" of the pdf document as the "author". According to voxeu.org, "Declan Costello is an Economist working in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission since 1991." And to think ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... back of positive congressional testimony by US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen about interest rates. CommSec chief economist Craig James says there were impressive international lead-ins for the local bourse. The Dow Jones and S&P 500 both surged ...

Brady Bunch as useful as market commentary: Shane Oliver

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... age is doing little to improve performance for most investors, according to AMP head of investment strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver. Shedding light on the amount of digital data that is shared online, Oliver explained that in a single minute ...

Findex appoints head of investment research

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... manager. Prior to that he was a portfolio manager for alternative investments at MLC Investment Management, as well as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, based in Paris. Cavaglia's main role at Findex will be to ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... bank's 40 bps reduction in its one year benchmark lending rate from 6.0% to 5.6% in November last year. Ma Jun - chief economist of the PBOC's research bureau - explained the PBOC's decision thus: "Using the reserve requirement and other monetary tools ...

FEATURE: Understanding mFund

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
Offering instant diversification, professional management and exposure to assets not easily reached by individuals, managed funds represent a one-stop shop that's suitable for every type of investor. But despite these obvious benefits, the penetration ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
You oughta be congratulated! Clap, clap, claps are in order for the six sages (out of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg) who correctly anticipated the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) verdict to cut interest rates by 25 bps to a historic low 2.25% ...