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Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... competitiveness of "Made in Australia" products and services and at the same time, raises the profits of local companies earning US dollars when "translated" back into Australian currency. Not to mention, the rise in the share prices of Australian firms ...

BlackRock results reveal Aladdin trajectory

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... 60% of the performance fee earnings. Compensation for BlackRock employees was up year on year by about half a million US dollars. BlackRock also took a minority stake in Clarity AI, a sustainability analytics and data science platform. The platform's ...

Xinja dabbles in US stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... the funds in their account as well as monitoring their investments, ETF and share prices in Australian dollars and US dollars in the app. The orders will be automated and executed when the US share market opens without any broker or human intervention. ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... looking at which EM countries are at greatest risk, we tend to look at which have a large amount of debt denominated in US dollars versus which economies are able to independently manage monetary and fiscal policy. "China is firmly is in the latter bucket." ...

Hamish Douglass remains confident amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... reduce risk, Douglass has increased the portfolio's cash holdings from six to 15%, all of which will be held in US dollars. In a portfolio update, Douglass warned of the economic impacts of the pandemic. "The COVID-19 virus is a fast-moving and fluid ...

VanEck launches first active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... ASX in February. The ETF will hold a portfolio of EM debt securities, denominated in their local currency as well as US dollars. It is targeting 5% per year in target yield and will make monthly distributions. VanEck has set the management costs are ...

Industry fund awards mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... alternatives allocations. It will hold mostly sovereign debt issued by emerging market countries that is denominated in US dollars. The emerging market debt mandates follow the fund's allocation last month to a distressed debt manager, as it trims its ...

Pendal appoints impact investment team

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... challenges like climate change and poverty by 2030. "The impact investment market is currently worth over half a trillion US dollars and there is an obvious and growing demand from clients for this capability," Brandweiner said. Brandweiner said Pendal ...

First green bond ETF listed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... risen by more than 230% since 2017. Bonds will only be eligible if they bare denominated in Australian dollars, Euro or US dollars, are rated investment grade at a minimum Standard & Poors or Moody's Investor Services, be at least one year old, have ...

Industry fund dips toes in private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... now are now looking at starting a position," Block said. The Sydney-based fund has increased its exposure to bonds, US dollars and real assets as it sees volatility ahead. It has trimmed its US and Aussie equities exposures because it believes valuations ...