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Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... in 2018 continues to do so. That's good. Even better is Factset's latest report on the Trump-Xi trade talks: "Bloomberg cited people familiar with discussions who said most or all US tariffs on China likely to be lifted as two sides close in ...

Chief economist update: Wrong way, go down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
The A$/US$ exchange rate is, according to my Bloomberg screen, currently trading at US$0.7141, up 0.04% from the previous trading day and up 1.3% this year to date. In turn, Bloomberg's US dollar spot index has risen 0.14% overnight and is just ...

Chief economist update: The RBI surprises (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
The Reserve Bank of India is full of surprises. When financial markets expected it to raise interest rates, it didn't. When everyone expected interest rates to remain steady, it cut. Recall that back in October 2018, the RBI surprised markets by ...

MLC MySuper switches to lifestage

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... CPI by 2.5% pa over any five-year period MySuper cash plus portfolio: 100% cash. Its objective is to outperform the Bloomberg AusBond Bill Index over any one year period. How will asset allocations change with age? Members under 55-years-old will be ...

AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
New research from Bloomberg suggests fee margins of global asset managers will drop 11% over the next six years. Most of the 1950 global asset managers surveyed in the Asset Management Outlook to 2025 provided conservative AUM growth forecasts over ...

Rest launches low-cost indexed options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... tax) which are: the S&P/ASX300 Accumulation Index, MSCI World ex-Australia ex-Tobacco Net Dividends Reinvested Index, Bloomberg AusBond Composite 0+ Years Index, Citigroup Global Bond Index ex-Australia (hedged to AUD) and Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bill ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
A Melbourne bond manager won a $180 million mandate from UniSuper as the super fund increased its allocation to fixed income. UniSuper appointed Jamieson Coote Bonds to manage about $180 million in Australian government bonds in November. The mandate ...

Chief economist update: Is there a bear in there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... per cent below its August 31 peak, falling 1.6 per cent on the day [14 December]," according to the AFR. According to Bloomberg data, more than half the components of the S&P 500 - 259 companies - are now at least 20 per cent below their 52-week highs ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... firms it surveyed. Group's predictions range from 2675 to 3100, with a mean estimate of about 2840. Note a recent Bloomberg article said that at 2800, the S&P 500 average estimate of nine strategists it tracked points to not only another year of ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
With one tweet, US President Donald Trump reversed all of Wall Street's gains... and then some. "....I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It ...