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Chief economist update: BOE lets peers do the heavy lifting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... and corporate bond spreads, as well as falls in industrial metals prices. Forward interest rates in major economies have fallen materially further. Increased Brexit uncertainties have put additional downward pressure on UK forward interest rates and ...

Hostplus makes bid for SMSF money

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... these products, we had about $80 million a year in SMSF outflows. In the last two years, SMSF outflows from the fund have fallen back massively and we have seen net inflows." Hostplus will review its lineup of SMSF options periodically and may add more ...

Chief economist update: Another RBA rate cut should be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... bottomlines are translated back into Australian dollars. Can you feel... the wealth effect? Sure, property prices have fallen but just imagine the wealth effect from the rising stock market - up to 11-year highs - us, Australians all, are invested in ...

AMP Super, board slapped with licence conditions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... day-to-day basis and will benefit from a continued strengthening of our oversight and governance." While its share price has fallen over the past year, AMP said this decline has no direct impact on any of its products, services or capital strength. It ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... trade tensions, fears of a US recession and increased oil supply concerns sent crude oil into a bear market. WTI oil has fallen by 22.2% to US$51.57/barrel from its April peak of US$66.24. Brent oil has slipped by 19.2% (not quite satisfying the technical ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... the midst of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-2009. Australian tenners at 1.48% are at record lows; the UK's has fallen to 0.9% - still above the 0.5% low after the Brexit referendum in 2016 but way down from the GFC low of 2.95%. Meanwhile, Euro ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... isn't happening. Prices at the factory gates remain unchanged at 2.2% in the year to April and import prices have actually fallen by 0.2% in the year to April from a small 0.1% lift in the previous month. The drop in 10-year Treasury bond yield has ...

Compulsory super detrimental: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... the property ladder, their income is docked nearly 10% to save for their retirement," Cowan writes. Home ownership has fallen amongst every age group in Australia during this period. The paper points out that it has fallen the most dramatically amongst ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... (est. 215K). New home sales fell 6.9% m/m to a 673K SAAR (est. 678K)." They went up and down, but the S&P 500 index has fallen by 2.1% since May 10 when the trade war reignited; the Nasdaq by 3.4% and the Russell 2000 index by 4.6% The decline in the ...

Beware: Zombie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... Zombie ETF research did not consider performance. Further, Australian ETFs' buy sell spreads and manager expense ratios have fallen in the six years to December 2018, which Dyall said stem from the network effect of more advisers using them. "I want ...