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Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... findings were released. On 8 March 2017, a few months after he was elected, Trump wrote on Twitter stating that "the stock market has posted $3.2 trillion in GAINS" since his presidency and took much of the credit. An analysis by Acorns/Grow found since ...

India Avenue fund distribution boosted

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... markets." "With strong sustainable corporate earnings growth, driven by India's demographics, it is likely that India's stock market will benefit. India's GDP is now twice that of Australia's and is growing at a much more rapid pace than Australia and ...

Financial concerns drive women to online investing

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... Despite recent progress, Fidelity International managing director Alva Devoy said not enough women are investing in the stock market because of their aversion to risk and lack money to invest. "Women are still earning less, they take career breaks and ...

Market cap funds disappoint investors: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... people to overestimate their own ability to predict which stock will become the next 'star' or 'big winner' of the stock market," Kuhner said.

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... against the MSCI benchmark. UBS estimates that this would drive around US$67 billion worth of inflows into China's stock market this year - enough to buy Luxembourg and Greenland, plus change. These would provide extra underpinning to the recent ...

Chief economist update: Trump tweets bull market back into China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
Two tweets from the US President (only because it couldn't fit in one) were all it took to send China's stocks soaring and turn its market technically from a bear to a bull. China's Shanghai Composite Index spiked 5.6% yesterday after US ...

Future Fund delivers 5.8%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... he said. "The correlation is that it can underperform relative to balanced funds in times of boom, like when the stock market is up." The Future Fund now has $147 billion in assets under management. The 10-year return is 9.7% against the target return ...

Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... Chief Economists Forum not to anticipate buoyant returns that lasted from 2009 to the beginning of 2018. The huge stock market rally is simply an extension of monetary policy, he said. Because interest rates have been suppressed by central banks for ...

Super funds edge towards a flat 2018

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 DEC 2018
... Diversified (MySuper) and Hostplus - Balanced returned 5.9% respectively. Rainmaker's analysis shows October's stock market performance reduced one-year super fund returns by two thirds to 3.8% per annum down from 9.7% as at the end of September. ...

Chief economist update: The clown in the White House

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... pouring gasoline on global markets is "also pouring gas on the US markets..." Another reply from Donna Perry said: "Stock market down 4.98% this year. Your tariffs and policies are hurting our country!" Then again, here's a true Trump believer, Ava ...