Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 151 - 160 of 1070 results for "NOTHING"

Loomis Sayles wins super fund mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... review of the $10.8 billion fund's defensive alternatives asset class at the end of 2020. Returns from cash is next to nothing and developed market sovereign bond yields remain low, he said, so by investing in this strategy the fund can generate ...

YFYS incentive to reduce fees: Hume

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... returns so should achieve a higher APRA performance test assessment," Dunnin said. "But if the fee 'reduction' was really nothing more than the fee load swapping from investment fee side to the administration fee side, then fees didn't lower - they were ...

Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... continue growing with a virtuous cycle from income to spending intensifying." There goes that "virtuous cycle" mantra again. Nothing wrong with that but perhaps the BOJ believes that if it repeats it often enough, someday, one day, it will come true. ...

Bernie Madoff dies in prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... businesses on Wall Street - claiming to execute over the counter orders. The asset management division of the company was nothing but a Ponzi scheme. It used investor money to pay other investors. The amount of money lost by the 38,000 investors in the ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ keeps policy steady on unsteady outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
If in doubt, remain patient and do nothing. This is the gist of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) policy statement following the conclusion of its April 14 monetary policy meeting. The RBNZ kept the official cash rate unchanged at 0.25% and maintained ...

ARK Innovation ETF cops neutral rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... portfolio one stock at a time, using each stock's cumulative scores as a guide to position sizing. But these scores say nothing of each stock's sources of risk and return, which may be highly and undesirably correlated to one another," Greengold ...

ASIC cracks down on binary options

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... in 2017 and 2019 found that 80% of retail clients who traded binary options lost money. Binary options have an "all or nothing" pay structure, the investor either loses the entire investment amount or makes money. They also operate on short contracts. ...

Australians bullish on 2021 recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... who sold risky assets in exchange for cash-like investments fall from 21% to 14%. More investors said it is best to do nothing, maintain an existing strategy and wait for the recovery, while those who prefer to time the market and buy cheap assets has ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... Treasury's rescue packages and its actions towards "expediting relief to the areas of greatest need". There's really nothing earth-shattering about their testimonies - we've heard them all before - but it's one of the rare moments the ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... So much for speculations over the Fed's thoughts and actions, Powell and Co. did what financial markets expected - nothing - at their 16-17 March FOMC meeting. "The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 ...