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A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... Australian recession. Then again, there's hope young lady, one you, I and Irene can be thankful for, and that is the Australian dollar is falling. Hip, hip... The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has found itself engaged in this new currency war - triggered ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... Management executive director and global fixed income portfolio manager Sean Reynolds. The recent fall in the Australian dollar to 73 cents against the US dollar has closed the gap in the country's terms of trade, which have been declining due to falling ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... against the euro to date. The US dollar is up 21.6% versus the yen, 7.8% against sterling, 27% vis-A -vis the Australian dollar, and 20% stronger against the Canadian dollar. This compares with the US dollar's 3.5% appreciation against the yuan - including ...

Magellan doubles profit, boosts FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... "It's unrealistic that people think you're going to deliver returns above 20% per annum. That has been falling Australian dollar and strong investments. But ultimately we will close our strategies to new money if that's going to impact how we will manage ...

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... equities and A-REITs earned +25% and +20% respectively. It's worth noting too that over the same period the Australian dollar depreciated about 20% against the USD meaning potentially 80% of the international returns may be due to currency effects, thus ...

Magellan launches hedged global equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... unlisted funds. The $36 billion fund manager decided to launch a currency hedged version following the fall in the Australian dollar. The fund "will give Australian investors a complementary choice to access our global equities expertise via a simple ...

Growth or crisis, always reasons to worry in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... rapidly, "especially because these economies are in our top five trading partners," Mehmet added. But a rise of the Australian dollar "would cause structural issues domestically. "We'd go back to the tensions of having Queensland, the Northern Territory ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... the worst of times. 'twas only three months ago, the New Zealand dollar climbed higher and higher against the Australian dollar and was widely expected to breached parity because "...the NZ dollar genuinely looks like it is deserving of its high valuations" ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... Financial Review's (AFR) Philip Baker wrote on the blow-by-blow of the minute-by-minute price reaction of the Australian dollar to the consumer price inflation numbers released on the same day. "It took more than half an hour, but eventually the Australian ...

PROFILE: BNP Paribas Securities Services country head David Braga

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
As a former project manager, David Braga has seen it all. He's worked on almost every type of job going in the financial services industry, which is precisely what makes him the right man for the job as BNP Securities Services' new head of Australia ...