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EM investors brace for geopolitical impact

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... satisfactory if the conflict cannot be contained, especially if central banks make a policy error," she said. "In examining sharemarket behaviour over the past hundred years, we think it is particularly important to note that uncertainty in the pre-war ...

Chief economist: Is this a buy op?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... wipes $73b from sharemarket': According to the Australian Financial Review that's how much Australia's sharemarket lost upon hearing the news that Russia has invaded Ukraine. Both the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index and the All Ordinaries index ...

Advised clients' major concerns in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... such as Apple, Google, and Amazon. For them, the big concern is the ongoing volatility of technology shares and the sharemarket more broadly; they are wondering where markets are going from here and what that means for their wealth position, he says. ...

Super, fund manager ASX dominance launches inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... Member of Parliament Tim Wilson will lead the charge to determine if big super's domination over the Australian sharemarket is stifling competition. This morning, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics announced the launch of ...

Research aims to solve cash conundrum

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... offer downside protection have traditionally been used in the equity component of portfolios to safeguard against sharemarket volatility," Allianz Retire+ chief executive Matthew Rady said. "They haven't been thought of as an approach that can potentially ...

Investor population rises for global equities

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... ever came from direct individual investors, with hundreds and thousands of new, often young investors entering the sharemarket for the first time via ETFs in 2020," BetaShares head of strategy and marketing Ilan Israelstam said.

Chief economist update: The cloud over the rainbow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... lowered the fed funds rate from 2.5% to 1.75% in 2019. The bottomline is that, after all is said and done, bond or sharemarket diktat or not, the Fed wouldn't want to see all the money it's thrown at the coronavirus pandemic problem go to waste and until ...

Maple-Brown Abbott finetunes Aussie equities lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... Australian Geared Equity Fund has been around since 2002 and uses leverage to invest in two other funds from the firm: the Sharemarket Fund and Small Companies Trust. Over that period, it returned 6% p.a. while the S&P/ASX 200 Total Returns did 9% p.a. ...

Investors going in blind: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... ever came from direct individual investors, with hundreds and thousands of new, often young investors entering the sharemarket for the first time via ETFs in 2020."

ETF industry approaches $100bn

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... ever came from direct individual investors, with hundreds and thousands of new, often young investors entering the sharemarket for the first time via ETFs in 2020." Passive products captured 90% of inflows leaving the active sector maintaining the same ...