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In search of that elusive Australian animal spirit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... Estimate 4 for 2016-17. Estimate 1 for 2017-18 is $80,625m. This is 3.9% lower than Estimate 1 for 2016-17." The election of Donald Trump as US president has unarguably changed sentiment in terms of bringing out the "animal spirits" in Uncle Sam country ...

Ironbark launches income solutions suite

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... two retail products will run alongside other institutional and wholesale solutions. The firm's head of distribution Alex Donald said the partnership is a strong endorsement of its business model. "We're seeing a strong demand for more outcomes-based ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... market's weight (1.7%) relative to total, and the bond market making up 1.3% of the world. Needless to say, US President Donald Trump's trade and exchange rate policies would have a direct bearing on the outlook for Australia's economy and its capital ...

Mexican pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... The Mexican peso dropped from 17.63 peso per US$1 at the beginning of 2016, to 22 pesos a buck on 20 January - the day of Donald Trump's inauguration. It's currently at 20.35 pesos. In order to stem the peso's decline and its flow through into consumer ...

Buying American

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
"We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with winning." (Donald Trump) POTUS appears to be fulfilling another of his campaign promises if the latest stats on the country's international trade are anything to go by. The US ...

Assets mispriced by monetary policy: Nikko

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... now turn to fiscal policy to stimulate growth. At the moment, though, given global uncertainty about the ramifications of Donald Trump's and Brexit, Clark suggested a "humble" investment approach. "In an environment where we are just as likely to get ...

Asset manager profits under pressure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... the idea of actually being paid more," and suggested this might have partially fuelled the voter sentiment that led to Donald Trump's election. Beckwith said these three factors led to a bull market in asset management where "asset managers are now more ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... refugees for 120 days. And don't we dare question Trump. Trump fired acting US Attorney General, Sally Yates for defying the Donald and questioning the legality of the ban. And for us, Australians all, the on again, off again, on again (with extreme ...

Xero CFO takes on new role in leadership shuffle

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... chair, Chris Liddell, announcing his resignation so as to take up a position as an aide to United States President-elect Donald Trump. Liddell will be replaced as chair by Graham Smith, who served as Xero director for two years and chairs the audit and ...

New hedge funds for BetaShares

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... director Alex Vynokur said the future direction of the two currencies has been brought into the open by the election of Donald Trump, with investors interested in "expressing their view in a capital-efficient manner or simply wishing to mitigate currency ...