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Nikko returns global equities to overweight stance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Nikko Asset Management's global investment committee (GIC) has lifted its stance on global equities to moderately overweight from neutral, citing healthy economic growth prospects in the United States. The Tokyo-based company's investment committee ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
Financial markets have been eagerly awaiting (and rubbing their palms at the same time) this meeting - the 3 December ECB Governing Council meeting - ever since the ECB President promised at his 22 October press conference in Malta that, "The degree ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
"One concern was that such a delay, if the reasons were not well understood by market participants, could increase uncertainty in financial markets and unduly magnify the perceived importance of the beginning of the policy normalization process." This ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... index to 97.59 overnight - the highest in two months. It's for all to see in the 5bps rise in the 10-year US Treasury bond yield to 2.09% last night. It's for all to see in the spike in the fed funds futures indicating odds for a December lift-off now ...

Property rally drives Charter Hall results up

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Charter Hall Group's profit after tax is up 43.6% for the year to 30 June 2015, as property rallies in Australia. The group's profit was $117.9 million for the year, with funds under management growing 18% to $13.6 billion. Charter Hall secured $1.7 ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
Declining bond yields, an uncertain equities landscape and an appetite for diversification are driving institutions towards alternative assets. Alex Burke investigates whether this is the right idea. When Perpetual acting general manager for regulated ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Well they tried, and they tried, and they tried, but it seems that there's just no bringing back gold's shine. Gold was hit for six - that is, prices dropped for a sixth consecutive day overnight - down to a low of US$1,088.05 per ounce (the lowest ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
Was that it? No fire sale? Have the financial markets lost their marbles? Haven't they read the headlines about Greece turn from gloom to doom and yet... there were no massive sell orders? Or, not enough buy-ops. Equity markets closed down, a bit, - ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... the paltry 3.2% gain in the S&P 500 index to date (and that's not counting the loss from the rise in the US 10-year bond yield from 2.11% at the start of 2015 to 2.41% last night). But if we learned anything from Greece's history, it's that this bounce ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Hoo-wow! Houston, we had lift-off. Yes Virginia, financial markets from New York to Rio and old London town lifted off while we slept. Equity markets jumped while bond yields dived. These, because on optimism that a Greco-troika deal would be hammered ...