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Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... much, much more than even the highest forecast for a 235,000 gain. The VIX index has fallen by 49% from the Brexit-induced spike that sent it to a four-month high of 25.76. Although contrary to Fed chair Janet Yellen's expectations for an upward revision ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
Giant global banks and consumers alike have found old fashioned solutions to the unusual problem of having to pay institutions to hold their cash deposits - safes, vaults and strongrooms are back in vogue. Japanese hardware stores report demand for ...

Insto oligopoly stifling advice M&A activity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... financial advice sector where six very large institutions control 85% of licensees," he said. "However, recently I have seen a spike in enquiries from planners looking to purchase books of clients outside of their institutions because the pricing and ...

Boomers driving interest in PAFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... Fausto Pastro, a director at accountant and advisory firm William Buck, said: "In the past 12 months we have witnessed a spike in enquiries regarding the establishment of private ancillary funds. Baby boomers selling businesses have predominantly driven ...

Sunsuper overhauls TPD cover

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... rates by about 30%, and partially offset by an approximate 15% increase in death rates. The increase death rates are from a spike in death claims at the fund and across the entire industry during 2015. If Sunsuper didn't introduce TPD Assist, combined ...

Clients asking planners for margin loans

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2016
Almost a third of planners (31%) who recommended a margin loan in 2015 said the loan was instigated by the client, according to new research by Investment Trends, up from 21% in 2014. In its eleventh year, the 2015 Margin Lending Planner Report is an ...

Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... 2.0%) as early as May. Australia's better-than-expected economic scorecard killed these speculations, underscored by the spike in the A$/US$ exchange rate from US$0.7175 to US$7295 after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest tally ...

Economic experts still defensive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
A panel of economic experts has told Morningstar that financial markets may have been overreacting to volatility in the Chinese sharemarket, overplaying risks to respective economies. The discussion earlier this month also said Australia's economic ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... oil following the Yom Kippur war and the following oil embargo. - The 1980-1981 US and global recession was triggered by a spike in the price of oil following the Iranian revolution in 1979. - The 1990-1991 US recession was partly caused by the spike ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... 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 at 46% from 37% before the Fed released its statement. ...