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Chief economist update: When QE turns to QT

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... eased equity market overvaluation. However, note that apart from the fundamental macro and technical dynamics, the equity markets also depend on funds flow... and with the Fed shrinking its balance sheet, there's lesser liquidity to underwrite US ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... about it." This was US president Donald Trump's take on the previous day's slump on Wall Street that shook equity markets around the world. Trump continued his attack on the Fed as the slide on Wall Street continued overnight. "It's a correction ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
Another new set of tariffs will take effect today in the on-going Sino-US trade battle. Yet most equity markets around the world registered gains last week ahead of its implementation. This is because US-China tariff phase two is less onerous than was ...

Pengana flags private equity LIT launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... investments however this asset class can be challenging for retail investors to access." Pengana believes private equity markets offer compelling investment opportunities and such investments should play a role in many investors' asset allocation, he ...

Chief economist update: Trump's beggar thy neighbour policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... harder for them to lift their purchases of "made in USA" products even if they wanted to. Last week's drop in equity markets (including Wall Street) show that Trump's "beggar thy neighbour" policy could be starting to also beggar America. Ben ...

Nikko launches global disruption fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... funds. "The fund will enable Australian investors to access early-stage and emerging companies through listed global equity markets," Wood said. "We believe this offers long-term growth without the high costs and illiquidity typically associated with ...

Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... Australia... this is a thing now. The All Ordinaries index ended the week of 20-24 August down 1.1% when most other equity markets around the world registered gains - the MSCI equity index for developed markets rose by 0.8% and that for emerging markets ...

Aberdeen Standard launches AI-powered global equity fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
... two-year period, and developed a number of innovative AI-models to identify and capitalise upon patterns in global equity markets in order to dynamically time factor premia to generate alpha," Narikawa said. The fund is available to investors in Switzerland ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... emerging market equities since the middle of this year - down 6.6% compared to the 3.1% positive return of developed equity markets. Note however, that this is because of US equities' outsized weighting in the MSCI index (around 54%). The Stoxx-50 ...

Cryptocurrencies on radar but not priority: RBA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... Cryptocurrencies' combined global market capitalisation stands at US$250 billion as compared to US$80 trillion in global equity markets, US$15 trillion in currency and US$90 trillion in broad money markets, Richards said. A digital dollar? Richards ...