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Chief economist update: What to expect when you're expecting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... Philip Lowe and his board will keep Australia's monetary policy settings unchanged - the targets for the official cash rate at 0.25% and the yield on three-year Australian government bonds of around 25 basis points. While it's still early days ...

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... bond market after excluding issuance from the big four banks. IYLD is targeting 0.75% to 1% yield margin over the RBA cash rate and will charge 12bps per year as fees. The second launch, iShares Core Corporate Bond ETF (ICOR), invests in Bloomberg AusBond ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... interest rate cuts in the past decade the treasury and Reserve Bank have continued to forecast wage growth while taking the cash rate all the way down from 4.75% to close to zero," Keating said. A better model for economic growth would be aggregate demand ...

Asset allocation in a post-pandemic world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
In times of extreme volatility, it's more important than ever to ensure proper diversification, but the decisions made now will affect performance once we return to the status quo. Within the allocation to growth and defensive assets, it's crucial to ...

New fund listing cancelled

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... geography, maturity, industry and loan term," the company said. The fund is targeting a return of 4% pa above the RBA cash rate, net of fees and costs, and will be paid monthly. The company said it is targeting a portfolio composition of 85% senior secured ...

Dividends take hit, but will recover

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Dividends will fall as COVID-19 wreaks havoc on the bottom lines of Australia's listed companies, but they are poised for a much quicker rebound than that seen during the Global Financial Crisis. That's according to $9.5 billion fund manager Ausbil ...

Chief economist update: The outlook for Australia, according to COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... Australian central bank's May 5 meeting (where it kept monetary policy settings unchanged, "including the targets for the cash rate and the yield on three-year Australian Government bonds of 25 basis points) - puts into black and white the collective ...

Aussie banks battered by pandemic

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... advantage of breaks from their loan repayments, he said, making the true scale of losses hard to quantify. With the cash rate at historic lows and the economy set for a period of protracted decline, the big four banks are set to face some major headwinds ...

Gargantuan stimulus needed to survive economic disaster

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... historically low interest rate levels, they said, with the Commonwealth government able to issue 10 year bonds at an annual cash rate well below 1%. "This means that even $1 trillion of extra spending (more than one half of Australia's annual gross domestic ...

Multi-asset strategies key in COVID-19 crisis: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
The ability to adjust to rapidly changing economic data is a key advantage of flexible multi-asset strategies during the COVID-19 crisis. In an investor update, First Sentier Investors co-head of multi-asset solution, Kej Somaia said that although market ...