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ASX suffers worst quarter in over a century

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
The ASX suffered the worst quarter in over 100 years, but is putting the past behind it to rebound at the open today. Both the S&P/ASX 200 and the S&P/NZX 50 portfolio completed their worst monthly and quarterly declines this century, sliding 21% and ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... Fed's largesse - needless to say, a cure for the coronavirus is discovered soon - are able to revive confidence, making the spike in unemployment claims a short-term phenomenon rather than a rising trend towards joblessness.

Avoid listed wealth giants: UBS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
UBS has listed which stocks to jump on and which to avoid in the event COVID-19 pushes Australia deep into a recession, with two listed wealth giants in its negative column. Analysts from global wealth giant UBS' Australian equities teams have called ...

The sick short: Banking big on the coronavirus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... banked big on oil. "Clients got quite lucky on oil," he said. "When we had tensions between the US and Iran, there was a big spike in oil prices and many of our clients tried to countertrade to that; short selling oil at $77 bucks a barrel, and managed ...

Chief economist update: Japan fails to learn from history (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana... and repeat the past, Japan did. Preliminary estimates show that the economy contracted by 1.6% in the last quarter of 2019 following a 0.1% growth (if you could call ...

Gold lifts as US, Iran tensions escalate

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... prices to rally further, it would likely require some combination of general US dollar weakness, lower interest rates and a spike in inflation expectations - via higher oil prices and/or concerns of a negative spill-over to global growth." Despite this ...

Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... vulnerabilities from the tensions between slowing growth, high corporate debt and deteriorating credit quality." "A persistent upward spike in oil prices, if geopolitical tensions were to strengthen again, would also weaken growth prospects." "On the ...

FS Roundtable: Striking the perfect balance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... circumstances." At the onset of the Global Financial Crisis platforms underwent the ultimate stress test. Given the volatility and spike in trading volume, numerous platforms weren't able to cope, proving to be "slow and cumbersome" and unable to ...

Inflation the forgotten risk to retiree portfolios

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
Advisers should not underrate inflation risk when building retirement income portfolios for clients, an AMP Capital portfolio manager told attendees at Financial Standard Retirement Income Best Practice Forum in Sydney this morning. Speaking during ...

Wealth projection boosts super fund engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
Superannuation funds that provide projected estimates to members about their nest egg will likely receive more contributions and increased engagement, new research suggests. The ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) studied ...