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Future Fund investment mandate revised

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... From 1 July the Future Fund will have an investment mandate that targets a return of CPI plus four to five per cent. Overnight the Federal Government registered a revised investment mandate for the Future Fund, better reflecting global investment market ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
The S&P 500 index notched another fresh record high overnight - up by 0.3% to 2,404.39 points - and the VIX index dropped to a reading of 10.02 - the market has never been this fearless in more than 23 years (January 1994 when the index read 9.94) - ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... this, financial markets' reaction have been relatively sanguine - the VIX index (the "fear gauge) even dropped by 8.2% overnight to a reading of 14.66 after climbing to 15.96 (its highest level this year but below the 22.51 level recorded days before ...

FSC awards life insurance standouts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
The Financial Services Council recognised the best and brightest in the life insurance industry overnight at a gala dinner in Sydney. AIA head of retail risk, optimisation and compliance Kathleen Williams received the Young Achiever Award at the FSC ...

No wolf here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
Perhaps it'll still happen, but it's not happening overnight - the "gloom and doom" that international institutions, foreign governments and even the UK's own central bank predicted. They should be wolf-whistling instead of crying wolf. Preliminary ...

Trump bigger than Brexit

ALEX BURKE, DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... outcomes, there is the potential for significant market reaction in both directions," Stein said. He said the initial overnight reaction in US stock futures was negative, although the major indices flipped positive in early trading Wednesday after Trump's ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... over, things are still going bump day and night. Things like the VIX - "fear" - index. It bumped up to a reading of 22.1 overnight, just six points shorts of this year's high of 28.1 reached on the 11th of February. The index has nearly doubled from ...

ASIC investigating ASX outage

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... root cause of the issue" and scheduling a customer forum to discuss operational impacts and "preventative actions." Overnight processing completed normally and the market opened as expected on September 20.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... lowered its 2016 inflation forecasts to 2%-3% from its earlier projection of 2.5%-3.5%. The Malaysian central bank cut its overnight policy rate (OPR) by 25 bps to 3.0% on 13 July.

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... maintain an allocation to fixed income." Even painting a worst case scenario where global yields rise 300 basis points overnight - perhaps brought about by an unlikely re-run of 1994 when the Federal Reserve unexpectedly hiked the Fed funds rate - a ...