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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. ...

Managed accounts forum sold out, 2015 adviser survey results revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... managed accounts will be revealed. Managed accounts have existed since the 1990s but the past 24 months have witnessed a spike in adviser interest, thanks to more financial advisers offering MAs to their clients and more MA providers launching into the ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
For a while there last week, it seemed the financial market storm has come and gone... and it was safe to go back into the risk waters. Financial markets are again in upheaval and fear is once more on the rise - the VIX index spiked 10.5% overnight ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
The tsunami that has swept the financial market world last week right through to Monday has left and gone... and once more, the sun shines and the sky's blue. This means that the Fed can go ahead and lift, right Virginia? More so after last night's ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... the 8.5% biggest one-day drop since February 2007 makes for good headlines, but it's still within the realms of the recent spike in volatility in the Chinese equity market we've seen over the past few months. Nothing China's powers that are couldn't ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Interest rates in the United States are expected to increase over the coming months, a change that will deliver higher returns, but will also test investors' nerves, QIC said. QIC is anticipating that the term premium, the compensation required by investors ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Institutional investors might be too confident that their downside protection strategies can cope with market drawdowns. A recent report by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) found investors largely rely on a small number of downside protection strategies ...