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Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014

... its wagon to China's fortunes - good fortune in China, good for the Australian economy and therefore... higher A$ exchange rate. Could it be that what's happening now is that while headlines are still littered with fears over slowing growth in China ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014

Looks like someone forgot to tell the stock markets that we're already halfway through May - halfway through the month that's statistically biased towards losing money. Market action over the past 24 hours shows that most have not gone away and those ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014

... monetary policies last week. All three kept interest rates unchanged. All three are closely monitoring their currencies exchange rate against Uncle Sam's legal tender. And they don't like what they see. The Australian dollar has risen by 4.5% against ...

Bouncy bouncy

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014

... of the clearest signal yet that it's about to act, ECB chief Mario Draghi declared that "The strengthening of the exchange rate requires further monetary stimulus. That's an important dimension for our price stability." And for that bit extra hammering ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014

... what GG wants it to go. It's climbing back up and looks headed to US$0.93. "The long-running equilibrium of the exchange rate is probably lower and we have been quite consistent in saying that." We know from GG's previous comments that he thinks the ...

SMSFs still under-invested in global shares

MARK SMITH | MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014

... consider having their portfolio professionally managed, ideally in a way that manages both market downside risk and exchange rate risk.

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014

... percent previously." According to the PBOC, this is in line with the government's move towards a market-determined exchange rate and the central bank's intent to curb one-way bets (appreciation) in the yuan. Yeah, sure! Gauging from the market's reaction ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014

... reference rate fixing. According to the PBOC, this is in line with the government's move towards a market-determined exchange rate and the central bank's intent to curb one-way bets (appreciation) in the yuan. Except for those long yuan gamblers, heard ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014

Yeah, it's good but... This is the overriding verdict of the country's oft-quoted economists to the latest Australian national accounts report that showed our economy grew by a larger-than-expected 0.8% (expectations 0.7%) in the December quarter and ...

NAB reports $1.4 billion net profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014

National Australia Bank (NAB) has reported unaudited net profits of $1.4 billion and unaudited cash earnings of $1.55 billion for the December quarter. The latter figure represented a 7% rise from the corresponding period, and was 2% above the quarterly ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN | 12:33PM

Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA | 11:56AM

Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI | 11:09AM

The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA | 12:20PM

MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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