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iShares launches currency hedged international ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) by iShares. The new funds are local hedged versions of iShares most popular international ETFs, iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) and iShares Global 100 ETF (IOO).A The new funds increase the number of iShares ETFs available ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
Low inflation, low returns and high volatility are set to be the new normal in 2015. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirmed the trend when it downgraded its growth forecast for the global economy from 3.8% for 2015 in October to a lower 3.5% ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... (0.44 per cent) at 4,654.85. Stocks were pressed down earlier by the fall in oil prices after the International Monetary Fund sharply cut its global growth estimates by 0.3 percentage point, to 3.5 per cent this year and 3.7 per cent in 2016. Shares ...

Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... and was most recently with Ziff Brothers Investments as senior economist. He has also worked for the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. Based in Edinburgh, Faulkner-MacDonagh will report directly to the head of global strategy ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... turning the previous day's see on Wall Street into last night's saw. All are thanking the friendly International Monetary Fund (IMF) for opening up another entry point. But the rationale is really two sides of the same coin. The IMF's downgrade of its ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... on markets in the United States and Europe overnight. The market slide was generated partly by an International Monetary Fund report that lowered its global economic growth forecasts for 2014. Also, the German economy ministry said industrial output ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... the one (the start of a bigger correction) or another dip begging to be bought? This time it's the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that did it. Its crystal ball now shows the world growing by 3.3% this year (from 3.4% predicted in July) and 3.8% (from ...

No drama at the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... to deliberate on monetary policy settings apropos (wooh-hoo, big word) for Australia given current domestic and international dynamics. Pardon moi if you read otherwise, but as far and as wide as I dug, dug, dug and dug some more... the "will they, won't ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... honours) and a Masters degree and has "held positions as Head of the Economic Analysis Department, the Head of the International Department, and was Assistant Governor (Economic) from 1996 to 2001, prior to his appointment as Deputy Governor" in December ...

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... for 2015 remains at 4 percent." This is the first bullet point one will read when one clicks on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) website where it published its July "World Economic Outlook Update". Yet Wall Street appeared to have missed it - ...