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Retirement planning gets a recession check

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... J.P. Morgan Asset Management Australia's global market strategist Kerry Craig said the probability of a recession or a bear market remained low over the next 12 to 18 months, but if there is a recession, it would be "milder yet longer". Quantum Financial ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... investment - the third straight quarter of contraction. This could be an indication that the trade friction is beginning to bear on US companies or that stimulative effects from Trump's tax cuts are waning for domestic companies. In addition, rising ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Persistent sell orders have put Wall Street's major benchmark indices either in a correction (defined as a 10% drop from the nearest peak) or on the cusp of one: Nasdaq (-11.5%) and Russell 2000 (-15.6%); S&P 500 (-9.4%) and DJIA (-8.4%). The sell-off ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... the 2018/19 crop season to a mere 29.3 million tonnes compared with the previous year's tally. The eastern states will bear the brunt of the drop in winter harvest: "For vast regions of the eastern states, there will be no harvest, and where there ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... date and its foreign exchange reserves have dwindled by 2.4% over the same period. The Shanghai composite index is now in a bear market, down 22.9% since the start of 2018 (and that includes the 2.6% jump recorded by the index last Friday). The risk ...

APRA readies ADIs for BEAR

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... industry after implementing the regime for the larger banks from 1 July 2018. The information paper notes one key element of the BEAR involves an ADI identifying its own individual accountable persons, who must then be registered with APRA. "The ADI ...

Chief economist update: It wasn't me, it's the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
"The Fed is going wild. The problem in my opinion is Treasury and the Fed. The Fed is going loco and there's no reason for them to do it. I'm not happy about it." This was US president Donald Trump's take on the previous day's slump ...

AFA Foundation celebrates record year

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... year included the Make A Wish Foundation, Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation, Missing Persons Advocacy Network, Canteen, Bear Cottage, Camp Quality, Little Heroes and Lifeline. The annual Kokoda trek organised by the AFA raised $113,000 for the foundation ...

Banking remuneration practices to blame for misconduct

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... report." The report drew on the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms of 2012; the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR); and Sedgwick Review released in April 2017 suggesting that both the regulators and the banks have fallen short of addressing ...

Make sure you have cash: Geoff Wilson

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
Veteran investor Geoff Wilson says a bear market is inevitable and investors should check their cash holdings. WAM Capital is currently holding 29.2% in cash, WAM Leaders 14.6% and WAM Microcap 21.9%, the manager said in a conference call for media ...