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Investors to move on property before election: BlackRock

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... bottom of Australia's housing downturn and it expects investors to be ahead of the game. Giving its global investment outlook for the year ahead, BlackRock said softening house prices might lead investors to make wholesale changes in anticipation of ...

Super funds react to market sell off

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... produce returns, despite the precautions. "Our view is that, while there is a lot of noise in the media about the investment outlook, corporate profits have remained very strong here and around the world. While some of the events we have outlined here ...

Impact investments the next wave for RI

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... trend of purchasing alternative assets to help build responsible investment portfolios. In its 2016 Responsible Investment Outlook, AXA Investment Managers said impact investing will grow "to touch all asset classes, including listed and public securities." ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... fall in oil prices because they are both importers of commodities. But he said that, overall, Standard Life's Investment outlook for the region is flat: "If you take China into account, we are looking at weaker growth, which means that we will see some ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller. At a recent media briefing detailing BlackRock's global investment outlook, Miller said according to the last ABS survey released in February, mining was not only falling off a cliff but investment outside ...

I'm with Bill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... 2015, the WB's crystal ball says, I'm with Bill (Bill Gross) on this one - yes, him who wrote in his January investment outlook: "The good times are over" and that, by the end of 2015 "there will be minus signs in front of returns for many asset classes." ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... and early indications are... some have worsened. So bad that the king of bonds, Bill Gross, wrote in January investment outlook: "The good times are over" and that, by the end of 2015 "there will be minus signs in front of returns for many asset classes." ...

New Vanguard modelling tool picks global equities to win

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... Vanguard Capital Markets Model (VCMM), a simulation engine that assists in informing the global asset manager's investment outlook and asset allocation insights. Jeffrey Johnson, head of Vanguard's investment strategy group, Asia Pacific, said: "The ...

FEATURE: The myth of the outlook

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
Languishing beneath a pile of seasonal investment outlooks, James Fernyhough asks, does anyone really have a clue about what to expect for 2014? In the eerily quiet lull between Christmas and Australia Day, as the financial services community goes into ...

Model portfolios vulnerable to avoidable risks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... van Eyk's Portfolio X-Rays initiative. The consulting service examines a model portfolio to see whether the investment outlook, risk tolerance and the model's objectives are accurately reflected in how it is constructed. Portfolio X-Rays looks at asset ...