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It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... to 4.6% and lowered the reserve requirement ratio by 50 bps - yet it provided only a brief respite. For instance, after trading up by as much as 2.9%, the S&P 500 index ended last night's trading activity down another 1.4%. What gives? Some would argue ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... fighting". The current financial market mayhem has taken the A$/US$ exchange rate back to 2009 GFC levels. It's currently trading around US$0.7165. The chart below (log scales) shows that it's the Australian dollar's depreciation that has shielded the ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... The free trade agreement will provide this architecture and therefore the access to China. China has three schemes for trading and investment. Each has a quota as China is carefully managing the internationalisation of its currency and economy.A Australia ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... doom. Financial markets are running scared - the VIX index jumped by 46.5% to a reading of 28.03 at the end of last week's trading activity. This is the highest reading since the 30.59 printed way back on 8 December 2011when the PIGS' debt crisis sparked ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... the RBA wasn't pointing any fingers at our neighbours either. "Members noted that economic growth in Australia's major trading partners had remained close to its long-run average, although growth had eased a little in the June quarter. The forecast for ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... with listed investment companies (LIC) is that investors are paying for management fees, but facing the risk of the fund trading at a discount to its net asset value. "When many of these securities list in an IPO, they list in a 100% value. But within ...

Magellan adds infrastructure specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... infrastructure team consists of six investment professionals located in Sydney and New York, supported by macroeconomic and trading resources in Sydney. Mentzines will be based in Sydney. The infrastructure team manages more than $5.6 billion in global ...

BlackRock boosts iShares sales team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... broad range of investment disciplines including portfolio analysis and construction, security valuation, market structure, trading and execution," head of iShares Australia Jon Howie said. Alex Zaika joins iShares from Barclays Capital, where he was ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... become an imperative. This or direct intervention -- like it did back in March last year when it doubled the yuan/US$ trading band that reversed the currency's climb. Historical precedence also doesn't preclude China from devaluing its currency outright. ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... gonna be a good day, gonna be a good, good day for Australian equities. Well, at least at the open with the SPI futures trading up 36 points. Yes, at the open, for we've been here many, many times before when some "spooky" headline reverses the up into ...