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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

Budget undermining super: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
Treasurer Scott Morrison's Budget missed the mark in setting superannuation policies right, proving they cannot be trusted with more than $2.1 trillion in assets, according to the Federal Opposition. Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen and Shadow Revenue and ...

VanEck partners to launch ETF model portfolios

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
VanEck will launch a range of model portfolios to advisers using exchange-traded funds, in partnership with an investment researcher. Using Lonsec's portfolio construction research, the VanEck ETF Model Portfolio series comprises balanced, growth and ...

Fearless forecasting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
Ho-hum. The Fed met and adjourned their 2-3 May FOMC meeting and it was a non-event, announcing no change in policy as Janet Yellen and her merry men see no change in their forecasts. "The Committee expects that, with gradual adjustments in the stance ...

China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
Whether it's the official tally or the private sector one, the latest purchasing managers' surveys point to slowing expansion in China's manufacturing sector and suggesting a weak start to the second quarter. China's official National Bureau of Statistics ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Trump's actions against Syria show that he walks the talk, putting Chinese president Xi on notice that the US may yet make good on its threat to slap a 45% tariff on Chinese imports. America's missile assault on Syria, in retaliation for the chemical ...

The challenging nature of ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
Initiatives to increase ethics in financial services can be likened to endurance events in the sporting arena. That is the view of Clare Payne - former endurance swimmer and consulting fellow for Ethics in Banking and Finance with The Ethics Centre. ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
Don't you just love it when things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell ...

S&P measures green bond performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
S&P Dow Jones Indices recently launched a green bond index licensed to VanEck for an exchange-traded fund. The S&P Green Bond Select Index measures the performance of bonds that finance environmentally-friendly projects and fulfil a strict set of requirements ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
A few more sleeps and the fed funds rate would no longer have a zero in front of a decimal point but a one. Unless something surprisingly dramatic occurs between now and the ides of March (15th of March), the US Federal Reserve is sure to announce its ...