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Super funds hungry for offshore assets: NAB

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... to be more responsive to market movements, such as a perceived large undervaluation or overvaluation of the Australian dollar," he said. This reflects the downtrend in the Australian dollar - from above US$0.80 in 2017 survey to about US$0.70 two years ...

Industry fund awards $150m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
A major industry superannuation fund has awarded a $150 million mandate to a London-based investment manager. Sunsuper selected Affirmative Investment Management (AIM) to manage its first green bond mandate, which aims to achieve financial returns ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... government's latest tax cuts only works for those who have jobs and pay taxes. Finally, there's the Australian dollar. Its depreciation would help shield Australia from the rough waters developing in the international economy as it has done so ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
In his outing before the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on August 9, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe practically gave his nod of approval in Financial Standard 's clear as the crystal ball's ...

HUB24 launches multi-currency functionality

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
Investment managers are now able to include up to 10 foreign currencies when implementing managed portfolio investment strategies on HUB24 with the platform's new multi-currency functionality. The new function will be available within international ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... an undervalued exchange rate. As a matter of local interest, the 'Big Mac index' indicates that the Australian dollar is 25.8% undervalued against the US dollar.

Chief economist update: Australia needs a cheaper A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... A$ terms, encouraging Aussies to buy "Made in Australia". However, global economic dynamics suggest that the Australian dollar would need to be even cheaper in order to counteract the deceleration in global growth. More so, given the slowing Chinese ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... that's further underpinned by Fed rate cut speculations which, in turn, is mitigating downward pressure on the Australian dollar and its influence at restoring equilibrium in the domestic economy. Then again, the RBA would not want to give the impression ...

Chief economist update: Another RBA rate cut should be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... people as the cheap dollar-A prompts them to come to Australia instead. But wait, there's one more. The cheap Australian dollar also makes Australian assets - stock market more attractive to foreign eyes. Not only that, those Aussie companies operating ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... lingering Brexit uncertainty there. Also, Australia is not on Trump's tariff sights and the cheapening of the Australian dollar is partially negating the downdraft from slower growth and slower trade. Lastly, the RBA's rate cut (plus expectations ...