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PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
PIMCO is winding down its exposure to Australian banks and certain real estate investment trusts as risks increase in these investments. In an outlook report, PIMCO portfolio manager Aaditya Thakur and credit research analyst John Dwyer said that while ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... sanctions will me get re-elected. Lost among investor worries over increased volatility in the financial markets, the correction on Wall Street, the prospect of a greater than three Fed rate hikes this year and the prospect of a global trade war sparked ...

ETFs a winner in February market slump: Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... Australian primary market creations and doubled on secondary markets. Aussie ETFs also maintained liquidity during the price correction, the $6.3 trillion investment manager said. The average spread for Vanguard's Australian ETFs widened `marginally' ...

Don't blame ETFs: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... were partially to blame, while 11% were inconclusive because there was not enough evidence to show ETFs sparked the correction. Vanguard Australia principal of market strategy and communications, Robin Bowerman, said the tremendous growth in both indexing ...

Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... previous month. This is higher than the top-end of market expectations of between 0.3% and 0.4% (enough to force it into a correction earlier this month) with the BLS reporting the "increase in the all items index was broad-based." Similarly, core inflation ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... 2017 that followed a paltry 0.4% gain in 2016. Tokyo's equity market continued to rise this year before Wall Street's correction reversed its gains as with other world markets. Japan's positive growth fundamentals should continue to underpin further ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... that this result was worse than the top-end of market expectations of between 0.3% and 0.4% (enough to force it into a correction earlier this month). Not only this, the BLS reports that "increase in the all items index was broad-based". Investors are ...

Chief economist update: The Fed's force is with us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... yes Virginia, the wheels are surely in motion...suddenly. The Dow and the S&P 500 are now officially in a technical correction - down from their respective 52-week highs by 10.4% and 10.2%, respectively. Just as I scribbled on this space yesterday, we ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
Now we've seen it all - the "most hated bull market in history" and the "most widely-expected correction." To wax pedantic about this, the Dow and the S&P 500's big drop on the 5 February 2018 does not even fit the technical definition of a correction ...

Market volatility ideal for fundamental investors: Expert

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... valuations. Nikko Asset Management head of Australian equities Brad Potter described this week's volatility as a "technical correction" whereby several events had compounded market drops all at once. He said there appeared to be a lot of "computerised ...