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Bad news on global activity and prices is the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... short-covering rally, cheapened valuation, or another jump on the price of oil which is a positive for energy companies (and the banks that lent to them) - one or a combination of or all of these factors were touted as the reasons behind the recent turn ...

Australian dividend growth outpaces global peers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... range of stocks in different countries and sectors lowers longer term risks. Australian investors are unusually dependent on banks for dividends so a global approach can be especially beneficial," Henderson Global Investors head of global equity income ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... equity markets last longer than a week as the wealth effect that this engenders would help alleviate the world's central banks persistent and pestering problem with growth and inflation. Perhaps then they could stop blaming the "global economy" and end ...

Advisers halt HNW slide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... represent a largely untapped opportunity open to accountants, financial planners, full-service stockbrokers and private banks. "Preference for control remains the largest barrier to taking up advice among HNWs, but next comes the question of the adviser's ...

Gold starts to glisten (like 2008?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... lowered interest rates, Grexit speculations and the European debt crisis, among others. Gold is again surging as central banks try to goose the system with more liquidity and this time, negative interest rates. The BOJ and the ECB are pumping yen and ...

Who can dig a deeper hole?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
Borrowers rejoice! Imagine how good it would be to have banks and other lending institutions pay you, I and Irene to take their money for whatever purpose we want to use them for - a facelift, a tummy tuck, education, holidays, a new car, another mortgage ...

Global central banks going for the cut

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
Central banks worldwide will continue easing trends in a disinflationary global environment, according to RBC Capital Market chief economist and head of Australian research Su-Lin Ong. Speaking at the 2016 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in ...

Risks are overstated: AUI

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... global fixed income, Bill Bovingdon, chief investment officer at fixed income manager Altius Asset Management, said central banks will wind down their stimulus programs and that will leave bond investors exposed. "The expectation is for three rate rises ...

Deflation and China pose biggest risks: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
US asset management giant PIMCO is most concerned about a slowdown in China, deflation and central banks not having the necessary firepower to mitigate further economic shocks. Despite those risks, the fund manager's base asset allocation is overweight ...

Hastings names new UTA portfolio managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... infrastructure and agriculture. Mitsch joined Flagstaff in 2014 after working as a senior advisor with a number of investment banks in New York including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Chase and Lehman Brothers. He has also worked in the corporate sector ...