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Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
Emerging markets had been rallying even before 2017 turned into 2018, outperforming developed markets - 27.8% versus 16.3% - at the end of last year. Those were the days of synchronised growth upswing, given more oomph by Trump's declared corporate ...

Chief economist update: Don't mind the gap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
Hear ye, hear ye... the unemployment gap has closed! The loss of 3900 workers (versus expectations for a 15,000 addition) may have made for sobering reading on the Australian labour market but this was a small give from the 58,200 additional workers ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... the peso which has tumbled to a record low peso 29.94/US$1. The Indian rupee is also trading at record lows (rupee 69.93) versus the US dollar and the South African rand - currently exchanging at 14.37 to US$1 - has dropped to two-year lows. There are ...

NAB compensation delays hopelessly conflicted: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... supplying adequate information. The administrator should have been clear about the category of members who were charged PSFs versus those that received the service, she said. Smith reiterated during her session this morning that she wasn't given ...

Productivity Commission proposes more changes to financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... specify what proportion are in-house products. It must also disclose the proportion of products recommended that are in-house versus recommendations that are off-APL. ASIC should publish this information annually and conduct audits to determine if advisers ...

ETF industry swells to $39 billion, global equities dominate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... Australian equities are also losing out to their ethical category, which recorded about the same net inflows at $130 million versus $135 million. BetaShares chief executive Alex Vyonkur said: "While flows into equities ETFs remain strong, investors are ...

Family offices maintain equity allocations: Study

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... one family member. Those with an investment committee achieved higher 2017 portfolio returns than those without (14.3% versus 13.6%). Half (48%) the survey respondents continue to have ownership of the original business that generated the family's wealth. ...

Sovereign investors change tack: Invesco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... equities in their asset allocation. 47% of APAC investors expected to decrease equity holdings over the next few years (versus 37% among all respondents globally), and only 13% expect to increase exposure (versus 25% among global respondents). Instead ...

Investor interest in long-short strategies surging: Zenith

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... Index return of 7.6% p.a. Risk volatility was also lower for long-short funds, with annualised standard deviation of 8.9% versus 11.2% for the index. They also capture the market's upside and downside risks effectively, Zenith said. In the five years ...

Chief economist update: Australian dollar loss is economy's gain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... Australia's legal tender is trading 5.8% lower against the US this year to date; 3.2% cheaper against the euro; down 6.4% versus the yen; 3.5% down on the British pound; and, 3.4% lower even against the depreciated Chinese yuan. The corresponding ...