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Raising rates on soybeans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
The US economy just recorded its fastest rate of expansion since the third quarter of 2014 and at a seasonally adjusted annualised rate of 2.9%, the September quarter's scorecard is more than double the previous period's 1.4% increase and also better ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Waning. Impotent. Ineffective. End-game. These were some of the adjectives applied to the major central banks' "non-conventional" policy stimuli of recent years. Terms, that when mentioned with the word "lift" alongside the Fed and the loss of faith ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas everybody, merry Christmas! The Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) played jolly old saint Nicolas, decking the financial market halls with boughs of holly (fa la la...) on the 21st of September. Santa Kuroda ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
"Do you remember twenty-first night of September? Before you go cold like December And all you saw were cloudy days..." - September Gospel musician Kirk Franklin's reprisal of 'Earth, Wind & Fire's' classic September could become a hit come the "twenty-first ...

Class integrates with startup to help advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... an online platform and mobile app aimed at assisting advisers in making better informed decisions. The platform, Simply Wall St, analyses over 15,000 individual stocks in Australia, the US and UK and also examines investment portfolios to identify underlying ...

Capital stewards create value on Main Street

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Australia's superannuation system is estimated to reach more than $9.5 trillion in the next 20 years and the role of super funds as capital stewards will remain large, according to industry professionals. Capital stewardship is continually redefined ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
In a week punctuated by disappointing key stats from the world's major economies, something strange in our neighbourhood happened... Wall Street produced a trifecta. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all closed at record highs on the 11th of August ...

US mulls borrowing limit on leveraged ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
US financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is considering introducing measures to restrict how much mutual funds can invest in leveraged exchange traded funds (ETFs). The product type gives investors geared exposure to a given ...

Competitive forces driving US pension fees down

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
Greater transparency and increased competition, as well as the risk of legal proceedings, have driven companies in the US to demand lower fees from pension providers for their employees' 401(k) plans. As new disclosure rules allow companies to learn ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
Australia retirement and retirement intentions The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) survey (conducted 2014-15) on retirement and retirement intentions show that Australians intend to work longer than ever before. The survey - which started a few ...