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Chief economist update: The AUD's resilience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... still below-RBA target inflation, would put upward pressure on inflation which, in turn, encourages consumer spending now lest prices continue increasing in the future. However, the Fed's pause, the ECB's targeted longer-term refinancing operations ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... from 38% in December 2017. Wages is the key. The RBA won't be able to lift interest rates until growth in wages picks up lest it exacerbates the financial stress on households. The RBA knows this, it has said so many, many times. Ben Ong is the Director ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... and 1.5% in July of the same year. It's now lower - 0% - and that's with a lot of asset purchases to boot. "Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." Aesop Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker ...

Big data's big retirement benefits

DARREN SNYDER, STEPHEN FAY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
J.P. Morgan Asset Management says big data is allowing retirement income products to be better customised to the individual and more dynamic in managing retiree spending. The asset manager has designed a solution in the US, assisted by retiree data ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... the exit... The message was way overinterpreted." The ECB was correct in nipping these rate hike speculations in the bud, lest rising interest rates - the yield on 10-year euro bonds jumped from 0.37% a day prior to the ECB's 9 March meeting to 0.43% ...

Riskier glidepaths could be one retirement answer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
A global retirement solutions executive says a stable, or even climbing, asset allocation glidepath in post-retirement may be a more sensible approach for target-date superannuation funds. J.P. Morgan Asset Management global head of retirement solutions ...

Report highlights sea-change in asset owner operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... of external manager decisions. Without it, investment managers tend to obsess about tracking error and then over-diversify lest their best ideas turn into a career risk. Neal therefore thinks that the internal culture of the asset owner - from recruitment ...

Shaw and Partners appoints another Macquarie vet

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
Shaw and Partners has appointed a new institutional equities specialist. Darin Lester joins Shaw and Partners from BTIG, where he held a senior institutional equity sales position. Prior to that, he was a division director for alternative strategies ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following sell-offs on international markets after Chinese stocks fell more than eight per cent, sparking concern about global economic growth. At 0800 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures ...