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Dividend payouts stagnate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... A dividend cut to 84 cents per share is also expected to be announced in the first half of 2020 as a result of ultra-low rates putting pressure on earnings, subdued revenue, remediation and credit charges bouncing off lows, UBS said in a banking sector ...

Boutique launches new fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... per year. "The fund is a floating rate fund meaning that the return will vary with movements in short-term money market rates in the Australian wholesale market. This reset frequency (interest rate duration) is in keeping with our objective to offer ...

Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... international trade." Not to mention central banks' limited firepower given the prevailing low (even negative) target interest rates in most developed nations. But there's a precedent Jerome, and its name is the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act ...

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... probability according to CME Group's "FedWatch Tool". Two, Jerome will not acquiesce to Trump's "demand" to chop rates "by at least 100 basis points, with perhaps some quantitative easing as well". Doing so would just heighten financial market ...

CFA exam results out, record participation

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... trends for the past few years, with less than half of the candidates sitting both the Level I and II exams passing. The pass rates for all three CFA exams have fallen steadily since the exam debuted in 1963, where 94% of test-takers passed. "Our heartiest ...

Perpetual profits dip, investments down 29%

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... year," Perpetual chief executive Rob Adams said. "It was also impacted by prolonged low volatility, record low interest rates and an extended market cycle favoring passive and growth investment styles meaning our value investment style underperformed ...

Best online brokers revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... finding that investors are on edge about the US-China trade conflict, with 55% citing it as a concern. Concern about interest rates soared from 16% in May to 33% in June, which Investment Trends points out was likely associated with increased coverage ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... effectively discounted the bond market as irrational: "Some analysts have worried that the dip in forward real interest rates since last June may indicate that market participants have marked down their view of economic growth going forward, perhaps ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... bond yield target at around 0% - and vowed to "maintain the current extremely low levels of short and long-term interest rates for an extended period of time, at least through around spring 2020" while at the same time stating that: "The bank will not ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... LPR [loan prime rate] - effectively a rate cut - in order to "use market-based reform methods to help lower real lending rates." How good is that? China's stimulating its economy while at the same time trumpeting its march towards "market-based reform". ...