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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... high as 3.0% and in June 2011 it peaked at 5%. Driving down UK inflation is low input prices tanks to record low oil, commodity and energy prices and low global inflationary expectations and European deflation. Price wars opening between retail consumer ...

Is gold on the ceiling for Australian investors?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... activity. But nonetheless 12% of our benchmark is gold companies and that's been very painful in the last year because the commodity has risen 30% and gold stocks in some instances are up more than 100% and that's cost us dearly," Campbell said. "If ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... The slowdown is expected to weigh heavily on growth, with activity expected to fall back to 2005-06 levels by 2019-20. Commodity prices have meanwhile staged a mini revival of late on the back of a credit-induced bump in Chinese demand, but the big picture ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... hedge fund market. Industry researcher eVestment meanwhile revealed in their June Hedge Fund Asset Flows report that commodity based hedge experienced positive fund flows in the June quarter being the ninth month of inflows in the last 10. Long/short ...

Absolute returns no longer the domain of instos

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... institutions and family offices. "There have been significant market changes over the past three years, from large declines in commodity prices and the Australian dollar, to the continued flight to yield by many investors. In this environment capital ...

Magellan launches third ASX-quoted active fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... proprietary definition of infrastructure. We exclude companies where we assess their earnings have material direct exposure to commodity prices, competitive pressure or sovereign risk and we focus on companies with reliable demand and stable cash flow ...

Foreign investment bound for South Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... initiatives. The portal, AgInsight South Australia, was launched in August 2015 and allows investors to investigate commodity opportunities by integrating critical information such as past and potential yields, soil characteristics, climate patterns ...

ETF pioneer donates $100m to ANU

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... billion in assets under management, in 2003. The company launched the world's first physically-backed gold exchange traded commodity in the same year.

So what if Australia loses its 'AAA'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... resources investment is still falling, resource export volumes keep rising as new capacity is brought on line--even though commodity export prices are much weaker than before. We expect growth to remain firm over our forecast period, and project real ...

NZ Super seeks factor investing strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... portfolio diversification. "We are conscious of the key risks to rural land investments, such as weather, regulation and commodity prices, but note that these are weakly correlated to equity prices. While some of these investment characteristics can ...