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Colchester launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
Colchester Global Investors has launched its new Emerging Markets Bond Fund for financial advisers to diversify within the income-generating allocations of client portfolios. Colchester's head of distribution for Australia, Angela MacPherson, said ...

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... Government and the Lander (German states). From 2016 onwards the federal government will be forbidden to run a structural deficit of more than 0.35% of GDP. From 2020, the states will not be permitted to run any structural deficit at all." Germany's ...

Chief economist update: The budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
It's rare for two economists to have a meeting of minds (you all know the economists' jokes), but I'm happy to read Jason Murphy's - an economist. He is the author of the new book Incentivology and an article on news.com.au entitled ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
Aside for bragging rights, I can't understand why the current Australian government remains hell-bent on achieving that promised "Budget surplus". The current sitting Treasurer Josh Frydenberg looks set to deliver on the "promise" that has eluded ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... Certainly, it would put downward pressure on the US dollar and, coupled with his increased tariffs, would reduce the US trade deficit. Lower US interest rates and a cheaper currency will make America great again! Just think of all the business and consumer ...

Chief economist update: Fairy tales can come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... ore prices proves accurate, it would deliver an extra A$3 billion reducing the 2018/19 underlying cash balance from a deficit of A$4.2 billion to a deficit of just A$1.2 billion, and a bigger surplus in the following year. Liberium's bullish iron ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
Money talks, prayers walk. This appears to be the overriding theme in the upcoming May 13 mid-term elections in the Philippines where "foul-mouthed and murderous" president Rodrigo Duterte's preferred senatorial and congressional candidates lead ...

Chief economist update: China is back on track

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... 800 billion yuan (US$117 billion) of liquidity into the economy. This was followed by fiscal easing measures - budget deficit target raised to 2.8% of GDP this year from 2.6% in 2018; CNY2.0 trillion tax cuts; a 3% cut in the top bracket VAT rate; raised ...

Chief economist update: China and the spring in its step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... 800 billion yuan (US$117 billion) of liquidity into the economy. This was followed by fiscal easing measures - budget deficit target raised to 2.8% of GDP this year from 2.6% in 2018; CNY2.0 trillion tax cuts; a 3% cut in the top bracket VAT rate; raised ...

Industry welcomes tax cuts and surplus

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... mixed reactions from the financial services industry. Frydenberg extolled the Liberal Party for transforming a 12-year deficit to a long-awaited surplus. When the Liberals took power, it inherited a $55 billion deficit, he said, and promised 10 million ...