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Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... meeting sent equity markets up in the week ended 11 May 2018 - S&P 500 up 2.4%; Shanghai composite up 2.3%; FTSE-100 up 2.1%; German Dax up 1.4%; Nikkei-225 up 1.3%; All Ords up 1.0%. This optimism was replaced with renewed geo-political concerns. The ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
War: it seems that US president Donald Trump cannot get enough of it. Trump began his war crusade with the media (and fake news), then moved on to North Korea (although this was instigated by Kim's nuclear "exercises"), then trade and China, last weekend ...

Robo-advisers a hard pill to swallow for Aussie investors: CFA

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
Australian retail investors are more likely to trust human financial planners over robo-advisers - and by an overwhelming majority, according to the CFA Institute's 2018 survey of investor trust. More than 80% of the Aussie retail investors surveyed ...

Asset managers gearing for growth in 2018

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
The asset management and wider wealth management industries are confident about growth prospects in 2018 but remain realistic about responding to intense fee pressures, a PwC global survey shows. The majority (87%) of the 126 asset and wealth management ...

Record high returns elusive in 2018: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
Principal Global Investors chief global economist Bob Baur warns investors that 2018 will unlikely deliver the euphoric levels of financial market returns experienced in 2017. Speaking at this morning's Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum, Baur ...

Insurtech associations form global alliance

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
A group of associations representing insurance technology have co-founded a new Global InsurTech Alliance (GITA). Insurtech Australia, along with Insurtech London, Insurtech Asia and FinTechNZ are co-founders, along with future partners in Europe and ...

Citigroup takes action on pay inequality

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
Citigroup will be the first US bank to begin disclosing wage data and adjusting employee salaries as part of a company-wide strategy to close the pay gap for women and minorities. The organisation confirmed it is taking steps to disclose gender and ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... Henderson manager said the $2.2bn Global Unconstrained Bond Fund has taken a short position on Treasuries, UK gilts and German Bunds. Mr Gross, the so-called bond king, said he left the Japanese government bond market alone." "Mr Gross pointed to a report ...

HNWI financial advice demand falls: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
New research from Investment Trends found there are less high-net-wealth investors using financial advisers compared to five years ago. The use of financial advice among high-net-worth investors (HNWI) has fallen to a five-year low, according to the ...

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
There's no denying that growth in most major economies stepped up in the third quarter of this year but if current indications are on the ball, the fourth quarter will be better. Year-on-year GDP growth rates in the US, the Eurozone, Japan, the UK and ...