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Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... on global financial markets; the consequences of protectionist moves and their effects; developments in emerging and commodity-exporting economies including the effects of the two aforementioned factors; negotiations on the UK's exit from the European ...

Contrarian manager enters super sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... same competitive fee levels for the same dollars invested - always." Holding the view that superannuation must become a commodity, Allan Gray has purposefully designed the platform's front-end to unbundle fees and reduce complexity. "We bold the ...

Chief economist update: Confidence down, conditions up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... good sleep at night - Trump's trade protectionism, an emerging market currency rout, moderating global growth and commodity prices. This could be a reflection of that other famous quote from Julius Caesar: "No one is brave enough that he is not disturbed ...

Boutique manager to launch LIC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... flexibility to invest both long and short, and across the capital structure of companies, while also being able to use direct commodity exposures to hedge our portfolio has been invaluable to deliver returns in both good and bad markets for the natural ...

Chief economist update: Look ma, inflation ate my wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... developments, along with a litany of negative external ones - trade war, slowing global growth (China, in particular), falling commodity prices, emerging market sell-off, etc. - should propel the RBA to act (cut interest rates). It's only thanks ...

NAB recruits customer executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... their agricultural lending. "FMDs play an important part in supporting farmers to manage and grow through fluctuating commodity prices and variable seasonal conditions. This offset will take the form of a discount to their lending interest rate," he ...

Chief economist update: Australian dollar loss is economy's gain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... (-4.1%); yuan (-4.5%). And why? It's because of the escalating global war on trade; it's because of falling commodity prices; it's because of widening interest rate premiums (in the case against the US) and narrowing interest rates differentials ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... slowing global growth momentum that we've been witnessing over the past few months. In turn, providing more uplift to commodity prices. Both would be beneficial for Australia. Domestically, both the Coalition government and the opposition Labor Party ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... the risks to its projections for growth in the international economy (which carries individual risks themselves) and commodity prices and it becomes even more complicated. Having said that, the risks could be on the upside - such as the one Australia ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Australian dollar's depreciation is broad-based so don't you ever tell me that it's a US-dollar story. It's also not a commodity price story. The S&P GSCI commodity price index is up 7.5% in the first four months of 2018. According to the Australian ...