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Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... recession in 2001. However, a shift in the RBA's stance from "the next move in interest rates is likely to be up" to "neutral" could be enough to turnaround domestic sentiment. "The art of fighting without fighting." (Bruce Lee)

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... numbers should be supportive of Australian bonds in the short to medium term. For Australian equities, DWS is currently neutral within global equities but expects slower EPS growth. One Australian equities manager who differs from Taylor on rate cuts ...

Australia still low on trust barometer

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... country's businesses to do the right thing, up 7% from 2018, according to the report. NGOs: Australians sit in the neutral territory with 56% trusting their NGOs up 8% over previous year Interestingly, the Chinese reported the highest trust of all ...

Watermark pulls out of global equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... Watermark will now concentrate on two core strategies in Australian shares; one being equity long/short and the other market neutral. Watermark first began investing in global equities four years ago. Watermark chief investment officer Justin Braitling ...

MLC Centre goes on the market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... successful developments over the past two years," Johnston said. The sale of the MLC Centre is expected to be broadly neutral to the group's earnings in 2019 before any reinvestment of proceeds, GPT said.

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... this meeting, the federal funds rate would be at or close to the lower end of the range of estimates of the longer-run neutral interest rate". All well and good but where to now brown cow? "With regard to the outlook for monetary policy beyond this meeting... ...

Simpler fee disclosure on ASIC agenda

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Under new proposed changes by the corporate regulator, consumers will be able to compare superannuation funds and investment products more easily. ASIC released its response to Report 581, an independent review conducted by regulatory expert Darren ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... that is a much smaller consideration than the path of US interest rates. If indeed the Fed signals that they are at a neutral point in the interest rate cycle, I think that is actually the time to have a look at the markets that have been most adversely ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... Fed going to do going forward. Some say, it would ease raising interest rates while others think it's now close to "neutral" (whatever that neutral rate is). Sure, we can extrapolate to our hearts desire but economies don't operate in a vacuum. ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... appropriate anymore. Interest rates are still accommodative, but we're gradually moving to a place where they will be neutral. We may go past neutral, but we're a long way from neutral at this point, probably." As a result, US benchmark equity ...