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Global firm cuts fund fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... Australian market. Legg Mason managing director Andy Sowerby said the current position and predicted direction of the cash rate gave the fund a "powerful" opportunity. "This Fund has the dual aims of maximising income while preserving capital and achieves ...

Chief economist update: Lower rates still fail to animate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... getting in trouble now. Not only are Australian households not lifting their spending despite the drop in the official cash rate to a record low 0.75% but it's looking a lot like businesses aren't too. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' ...

Industry's Best of the Best celebrated

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... wealth by identifying and profiting from market anomalies, and noted its consistent outperformance of the Reserve Bank cash rate. Speaking to Financial Standard after the event, FS Power50 member and Evalesco financial adviser Marshall Brentnall said ...

Chief economist update: As low as Lowe will go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... Business Economists' conference last night, RBA Governor Lowe couldn't be more explicit on how low the official cash rate could go: "Our current thinking is that QE becomes an option to be considered at a cash rate of 0.25 per cent, but not before ...

J.P. Morgan predicts extended income squeeze

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... did not speculate specifically on Australian interest rates, but said that the income squeeze would continue as the cash rate heads towards zero. However, on the bright side, Australia is not looking as bad as the rest of the world. "Australia's better ...

Chief economist update: How low will Lowe go?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... that the RBA's relatively optimistic projections come with a footnote - (a) the technical assumptions "include the cash rate moving in line with market pricing". Markets are currently pricing another rate cut by February 2020 or as early as December ...

Sydney boutique heads for Chi-X

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... distributor eInvest to list the funds. They will have three risk profiles and return targets of 0.5%, 2% and 4% p.a. above the cash rate. "With interest rates where they are, many investors are looking for more from their term deposits," Daintree portfolio ...

Chief economist update: The A$ will answer the question of how much more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2019
When the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met and decided to keep the official cash rate unchanged at 0.75% on November 5, Governor Philip Lowe issued this optimistic statement: "After a soft patch in the second half of last year, a gentle turning point ...

Chief economist update: RBA holds but for how long?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe's words after the board decided to keep the country's official cash rate unchanged at 0.75% at its November 5 meeting. No central banker would go out and shoot his own foot, announcing to one and all ...

Chief economist update: RBA rate cut outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... inflation has changed market expectations with regards to how low the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will take the official cash rate. First things first; the ABS report showed that headline inflation edged up to 1.6% in the year to the September quarter ...