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Pinnacle kicks off race to zero-fee ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... doesn't last. And there is the fact that managing cash is a low-management-fee endeavour anyway. However, Jajoo thinks the zero-fee model has potential beyond just cash products. "The important point is the expenses are capped at 15bps," he says. "If ...

Chief economist update: Look ma, inflation ate my wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... whopping 0% in the June quarter from a teenie-weenie growth of 0.1% in the previous three-month period. Not only that, the zero growth in real wages is thanks only to our brethren in the public sector (nominal wages up 2.4% in the June quarter). Although ...

Chief economist update: At the core-core of it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... showed that while both headline and core inflation rates remained negative while the "core-core" rate stood at above the zero line. Excluding the distortion from the consumption tax hike, the core-core inflation rate reached around 1% between August ...

Super funds and weapons of mass destruction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... Michael Armitage told delegates at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference that the zero-to-negative interest rate environment is pushing super funds to increase their derivatives exposure, especially in late-stage ...

Deflation and China pose biggest risks: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... of the CNY or a greater slowdown in Chinese growth. "Furthermore, given most global central banks are operating near the zero bound, they may not have a lot more room for stimulus if any of the above shocks materialise. As the first month in 2016 has ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... policy has been a source of volatility as the US Federal Reserve inches closer to starting to raise its interest rates off the zero bound. Adding to the uncertainty over the quarter was a series of events in China which raised doubts for many about how ...

Zero-margin platforms could target Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... arrival of overseas "zero-margin" providers, according to Bravura Solutions research. Referencing economist Jeremy Rifkin's The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Bravura's report notes the rise of fintech startups like Robinhood, which offer free solutions ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... from here? This one again from Bloomberg quoting Jordan, "Now the Fed has made it clear that they want to get off of the zero-bound interest-rate policy and nobody knows what it means for the market." Again, true that. While economists, financial market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... rose 2.06 per cent. The US Federal Reserve had been expected to start increasing the benchmark federal funds rate from the zero level in June, but the US economy unexpectedly slowed in the first quarter of the year. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets were ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... raising interest rates, signalling a mid-year federal funds rate hike remained possible after keeping the key rate at the zero level for more than six years. But other language in the Fed's statement emphasised that the central bank was in no rush to ...