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Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
The US Federal Reserve took another step towards policy normalisation at its June FOMC meeting - announcing another 25 basis point lift in the fed funds rate from one to 1.25% (the second this year) while at the same time giving notice that it would ...

Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Prudential Regulations Authority (APRA) would be pleased with the National Statistician's latest update on residential property prices. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures ...

Oil's not so slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
It has only been less than a month - 25 May -- since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced the extension of crude oil production cuts by nine months to the last day of March 2018 but oil prices are sliding again. The deal ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
Central bank decisions, forward guidance or even a word change in policy statements move markets. Not that anyone has to be reminded about this truism of course. The world's four major central banks - the Fed, the ECB, the BOJ and the BOE - and the ...

Mercy Super appoints new chief executive

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
Corporate fund Mercy Super has appointed a new chief executive. Wendy Tancred joined Mercy Super in April from Davidson Consulting, where she was also chief executive. Before that, she was Queensland state head of financial planning at BT Financial ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... news is not so good in terms of business confidence with the index dropping six points to reading of +7 in May from +13 in April - a 46.3% drop in percentage terms - "suggesting that there are some peripheral factors still weighing on firms' perceptions ...

Fiduciary rule introduced in United States

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
Financial advisers in the United States are now required to act in the best interests of clients in a bid to prevent the US$17 billion lost by retirement savers each year. Last Friday, the US Department of Labor partially introduced the impartial conduct ...

Retail funds closing in on return gap

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
The five-year performance gap between not-for-profit and retail funds has narrowed to 130 basis points, according to Rainmaker SelectingSuper research. While the one-year gap to April 2017 widened to 70 basis points, overall retail funds have performed ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... let's all spend a minute silence and pray that yesterday's report of a massive slump in exports - down 8.0% in the month of April - was indeed an aberration caused by Cyclone Debbie that should correct in the coming months. According to Factset data ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
"Better, but not good enough": this is how the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sees developments in the global economy. The OECD also answered its own question - "Will risks derail the modest recovery?" - initially posted ...