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Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... impetus for domestic consumers - them that make up around 60% of the economy -- to go forth and spend. But hey, the stock market is forward-looking. It has discounted all these negatives and is looking forward to the positives resulting from the RBA's ...

Chief economist update: Another RBA rate cut should be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... 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 overseas would realise bigger profits when ...

Chief economist update: Australian bull market here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... continuing weakness in household spending. This isn't a good omen for business profitability - that, which drives stock market prices. This is captured by the latest NAB Business Survey that showed business conditions weakened in May due to big drops ...

Downgrade follows fund manager YouTube apology

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... a lot of outflow in the portfolio, as a result of that increased level of redemptions what we were seeing was the stock market anticipating that we would have to be selling stocks to meet those redemptions." Despite this, his strategy will remain the ...

Liberal win stuns, ASX rallies: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
While the Liberal Party's win came as a surprise to the majority of our readership, stock market investors on the other hand were buoyant with the result, Financial Standard 's latest spot poll shows. About 63% of participants said the Morrison ...

BetaShares launches new ETF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... dominate returns. Vynokur explained reducing that potential is especially relevant in this situation, because the Indian stock market is one of the most concentrated stock markets in the world. "We expect strong interest from our clients in the BetaShares ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... there's bound to be those that are caught in the crossfire and others treated as collateral damage. The global stock market rout that developed as a result of the renewed "little squabble" (as Trump recently put it) between the US and China is evidence ...

GSFM announces strategic partnership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
GSFM has announced a strategic partnership with an overseas asset management firm. Canada-based Cambridge Global Asset Management will be partnering with GSFM to distribute the Cambridge Global Smaller Companies fund in the Australian and New Zealand ...

Rush of advisers sign up before FASEA deadline

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... managed accounts increased 1% during the 12 months before December 2018 to reach $691 billion. However due to poor stock market performance, local and international platform funds under advice was down for the December 2018 quarter. BT Financial Group ...

Alternative platform launches

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... solution is to allow advisers to hold clients' investments in their unique HIN, which was implemented following the 1987 stock market crisis to give Australian investors individual ownership of their shares Despite the HIN's development, the wrap model ...