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Alpha FM awards Indian equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... "Investing in India makes sense for Australian investors, given India's economy, currency and equity market all thrive when commodity prices are benign or falling; the investment is the antithesis of the commodity play."

Derivatives specialist opens Sydney office, appoints Australia head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... better position to support market participants in Australia." "Australia is a key international financial centre and commodity hub, and our office here will enable us to deliver our ever-expanding range of risk management solutions to our growing key ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... strong increases in output, new orders and employment. Input costs rose at a faster rate in September, driven by rising commodity prices, the exchange rate and supply constraints. It's the same with output prices as higher costs are being passed onto ...

AZ Sestante grows fund list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... the Azimut Group. Guiati said: "The fund operates under a highly flexible mandate leveraging trends in global equity, commodity, fixed income and FX markets. The fund looks to be lowly correlated to traditional financial markets with the ability to profit ...

Currency trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... historical relationships, a 10% appreciation of the trade-weighted exchange rate (that is not associated with higher commodity prices) would be expected to lower year-ended inflation by a little less than half a percentage point over each of the following ...

Treasurer backs APRA's CBA probe

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... contributed 27 percentage points - that is three quarters - of that growth by itself, buoyed by a temporary recovery in commodity prices," he said.

Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... historical relationships, a 10% appreciation of the trade-weighted exchange rate (that is not associated with higher commodity prices) would be expected to lower year-ended inflation by a little less than 1/2 percentage point over each of the following ...

Warne flags executive reshuffle at Macquarie AGM

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... head Ben Way and UK and Europe regional head David Fass on the management committee. In McLaughlin's stead, head of commodity markets and finance Nick O'Kane has joined the executive committee. As above, these changes follow Macquarie merging Macquarie ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... overnight. The Fed's change of tone sent the US dollar index to its lowest level in 14 months that, in turn, is boosting commodity prices - the Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Commodity Total Return Index has risen to its highest level since May this ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... Australian bond's shrinking yield premium over US Treasuries - from a peak of 42 basis points to a low of 16bps in late May; commodity prices were falling - the Bloomberg commodity price index decline from 89.36 in February to 79.36 in mid-June; and ...