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Active managers overcharge: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... from the 111bp average. Only eight in 79 managers in the study were a good value for fees for investors. "Comparing actual versus predicted fees illustrates that the majority of Australian active managers' fees are overpriced. Furthermore, we anticipate ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... destroys economies with offending currencies. A starting point would be the extent of under-valuation of a particular currency versus the US dollar. On January 10 this year, The Economist published its 'Big Mac' index. It showed that apart from ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
If very, very recent history is any guide, US President Donald Trump would soon be tempering his trade war tweets versus China. Trump did so early this year - prompting financial markets and economic and business agents to expect that a trade deal is ...

Chief economist update: Devilish details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... Nothing wrong with this except that, the details of this detail reveal this is only because imports dropped - down 4.6% versus a 3% increase in the fourth quarter of last year - by more than the decline in exports, which were down by 2.4% (from +1.2%). ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... the Japanese yen. The week before the war began, the Japanese yen had been depreciating against the US dollar - down 1.4% versus the greenback in the year to May 3 this year and halfway into reversing last year's 2.7% appreciation. Safe haven purchases ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... September 2018. Annual growth in industrial production sped up to 8.5% in March - the biggest increase since July 2014 - versus 5.3% in February, beating expectations for a 5.9% increase. Fixed asset investment growth quickened to 6.3% in the year to ...

Chief economist update: Same challenges, differing reactions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... inflation, both the RBA and the RBNZ remained faced with below-target inflation. NZ core inflation is 50 bps below target - 1.5% versus 2% - Australia's core inflation, measured as the average of the weighted median and trimmed mean gauges, is off-target ...

Chief economist update: RBA refused to blink in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... March 2019 quarter's 1.3% and the core measures of inflation was basically the same - weighted median at 1.7% in 2016 versus 1.6% in 2019 and trimmed mean at 1.3% versus 1.2%. But if the RBA is hitching its stars on the strength of the labour market ...

Chief economist update: RBA May cut, May not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... cut interest rates if it so decides. Then again, the Australian dollar has dropped since its April 2 meeting - down 1.7% versus the greenback and down 0.7% on the trade weighted index (TWI) - which, in itself, is a de facto rate cut. At the end of the ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... The PSE index gained 6.7% in the first four months of 2019 (after falling by 13% in 2018) and the peso's up by 1.7% versus the greenback (it depreciated by 5.8% last year). Build it and they shall vote. Duterte's build, build, build program is ...