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ESG mispriced by markets: CFSGAM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
The value of responsible investment is being mispriced by markets due to short-termism and other barriers, according to Colonial First State Global Asset Management research. CFSGAM undertook a survey of all staff worldwide to determine their perspectives ...

Expansions maintained despite dashed expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
Markit Economics' preliminary estimates show that while the purchasing managers' indices (PMI) for the US, the Eurozone and Japan all came in below market expectations, all remained in expansion. The IHS/Markit flash US composite output index slipped ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... January. The rate of inflation has decelerated since then - US down to 1.9% in May; world inflation down to 2.8% as at April - tracking the decline in oil prices since February this year. But all is not lost. Oil's well may still end well. The overall ...

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 ...