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Chief economist update: Iron ore on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... world's largest iron ore exporter (Australia, which accounts for around 50% of total world iron ore exports) has the biggest oil importer (China, which buys more than 65% of total imports) to thank for this, and perhaps US President Donald Trump ...

Future Super to offer investment app

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... as a powerful response to the reality of climate change". FEAT's website lists Australian artists Peking Duk, Midnight Oil, Vance Joy, The Rubens and Cloud Control as investors, with Cloud Control's Heidi Lenffer the group's founder and d ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
Crude oil prices have dropped, turning this year's bull market into a bear market. Oil prices rallied nearly 50% from January to April this year on the back of the Fed's pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy ...

Advisers wary of ethical funds, launch own rating system

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... Pengana's WHEB Sustainable Impact Fund lost a leaf because 6% of revenue from Rockwell Automatic comes from services to the oil and gas sector and because Pengana does not specialise in ethical investments. "We're saying this is the leaf rating ...

Legg Mason launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... several sectors including tobacco, gambling, alcohol, defence and weapons, fur, genetically modified crops, nuclear energy, oil sands and thermal coal." Sowerby added that QS Investors has a strong track record in the management global equity portfolios. ...

IFM keen on marijuana stocks

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
... $1 billion small caps strategy, IFM Investors has backed companies that have exposure to medicinal cannabis, hemp and CBD oil. "There's always new sectors emerging in small caps. If you thing back a few years ago, we had the infant formula stocks ...

Chief economist update: The bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... forecast in January and from 3.7% predicted in its October 2018 outlook papers. As a result, the IMF also estimates that crude oil prices would drop by 13.4% this year from an average price of US$68.33 per barrel in 2018 to US$59.16. This makes sense. ...

Chief economist update: The RBI surprises (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... expectations. Can't blame them, although Indian inflation was slowing at the time, the rupee's depreciation and soaring oil prices gave perfect rationales for these rising inflation expectations. But as I keep pointing out, economies don't ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... et cetera. But in the case of Manila, the peso's depreciation compounded the inflationary pressure brought on by rising oil prices (at the time), the TRAIN (Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion) law that took effect on 1 January 2018. Together ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... a hike, coming later in the year. "While the labour market continues to be strong, the housing market remains weak. Recent oil price recovery and upcoming elections in May are seen as a positive, the latter resulting in a fiscal push," Taylor says. He ...