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Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... limits on the Chinese companies included in stock indexes managed by US firms." As a result, the Chinese yuan fell by 0.4% versus the US dollar and while the Shanghai composite index inched up by 0.1% (it closed before the news), China shares traded ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... pressure on the Japanese yen. As such, while the US dollar has appreciated by 2.4% this year to date, it's down by 1.9% versus the yen while the euro is buying 5.7% less yen than it did at the start of 2019. While the BOJ acknowledges that "downside ...

Chief economist update: This land is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... economic heavyweight as far as Beijing is concerned - according to vox.com, it now contributes only 3% to China's economy versus around 27% in the 1990s. The escalating heavy-handed police responses to the protesters indicate the determination of ...

Chief economist update: The fear of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... new session of Parliament - leaves very little time for "oppositions" to gather enough hands for a vote of no confidence versus Johnson, reverse Brexit, and/or delay the prime minister's hard deadline of a final divorce by 31 October 2019. "Groans ...

Managed funds versus the ASX 200

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
Aussie equities managers had a hard time beating the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation index in the year to June and the underperformance gap has widened significantly over the past four years, according to new Rainmaker research. Just one in 10 wholesale managed ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... sails. So much so, that since the BOJ's last board meeting, the Japanese currency has appreciated by 2.2% to ¥106.28 versus an appreciating US dollar (+0.3% since and +2.1 ytd, based on Bloomberg's US dollar spot index). The ¥/US$ exchange ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... financing, among others - have prompted the government unveil counter-cyclical measures. In addition to lowering its yuan fixing versus the US dollar, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) now announced it will be "reforming and improving the formation ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... June, developing market central banks recorded a net five rate cuts." The Australian dollar's depreciation - down by 4% versus the US dollar this year to date and down by 2.6% on the trade weighted index (TWI) - offers the Australian economy a fighting ...

Cooper Investors launches equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... returned 16.2% gross absolute return p.a. in the two and half years to June end. One year gross absolute return was 14.3% versus the reference index's 6.1%. Volatility and downside capture were roughly 88% and 62% respectively of the reference index. ...

YouTube fundie called out by FCA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... rules themselves," he said. He explained that the FCA views situations like the Woodford incident as an issue of outcomes versus rules. "Rules are a crucial mechanism for delivering outcomes, but can also be interpreted so rigidly as to become a box-ticking ...