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Asset allocation in a post-pandemic world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... near term," Wilson said. "The latent diversification potential available to Australian investors from holding overseas currency exposure is also now reduced." Wilson said ensuring sufficient portfolio diversification will rely more than ever on top down ...

BetaShares launches new ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... bonds issues by some of the world's largest developed economies. The BetaShares Global Government Bond 20+ Year ETF - Currency Hedged (GGOV) aims to track an index that provides exposure to a portfolio of long-maturity, income-producing bonds issued ...

Chief economist update: Annus horribilis with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... sterling was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) on the 16th of September of the same year - sending the British currency crashing by 18.2% and making George Soros tons of money for betting against the pound. I don't know what the Latin ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... to manage a surge in COVID-19 cases, Grana and Culley argued. Vulnerable countries were also likely to experience poor currency performance, they said, with investors shunning risk assets during the COVID-19 crisis to short local currencies and hedge ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... nations either planning to or have already gently eased lockdown and social distancing restrictions, among them the single currency region's biggest economies - Germany, France, Italy and Spain. This relative optimism is reflected in the sharp drop ...

Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... in the economy. Again -- comparing apples with apples -- the latest GDP update on the Eurozone shows that the single-currency region is far from immune. Euro area GDP fell by 3.8% in the March quarter. Annualised, this translates to a 14.4% drop in national ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... in its SRI index. In EM, the underperformance of the ESG Universal and SRI indexes was due to unintended country and currency exposures, especially for the MSCI EM SRI Index. "While the MSCI SRI Index methodology is constructed to mitigate active sector ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... and cheaper oil may challenge some EM economies). Fixed income picks BlackRock Investment Institute's views on EM local currency debt have changed, as it downgrades the asset class to neutral from previous overweight as compared to broader global asset ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... listed property performing the worst, losing 34%. Australian equities were down 21% and international equities down 13% (currency hedged). "Investors in the ETP market traded harder than they ever had before," Rainmaker head of investment research John ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... stabilise their local economies," De Corrado said. "In doing so, a lot of fears regarding inflation or the depreciation of currency has re-emerged among investors that are worried about the monetary and fiscal policy measures that have been used during ...