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Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Persistent sell orders have put Wall Street's major benchmark indices either in a correction (defined as a 10% drop from the nearest peak) or on the cusp of one: Nasdaq (-11.5%) and Russell 2000 (-15.6%); S&P 500 (-9.4%) and DJIA (-8.4%). The sell-off ...

Bennelong boutique hires analyst

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... securities investing. In his most recent role, Truong was a financial analyst at Lendlease where he did financial modelling, research and tax analysis for Lendlease's global real estate fund. Prior to this, he was a sell-side analyst at UBS, mostly covering ...

Private equity will become bigger than hedge funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... overtake hedge funds, becoming the largest asset class in alternatives in the next five years, according to new Preqin research. Preqin predicts assets in alternative investments will hit $19 trillion by 2023, up from $12 trillion at the end of 2017. ...

Young Aussies set lofty retirement goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... a mortgage. Almost a third (32%) of the participants are living with parents to save money, the survey said. Separate research from global asset manager American Century Investments showed millennials are leading the charge behind impact investing. The ...

Australian Unity adds new research lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
Australian Unity appointed a new head of research services for its financial advice business. Having served as a senior portfolio manager within Australian Unity's investment team, Ian Holliday will step into the new role on 1 November. He replaces ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
It would be the winter of Australia's agriculture sector if Rabobank's 'Winter Crop Production Outlook' report is any guide. The specialist agribusiness bank predicts that the country's national harvest would drop by 23% in the 2018/19 ...

Raiz to launch group insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
A partnership between Raiz Invest and Swiss Re will launch new products attempting to disrupt the group insurance market. Raiz, the micro-investing platform, announced it is helping develop a tailored life insurance product within superannuation that ...

Chief economist update: If you can't beat Trump, copy Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
The Shanghai composite index surged by 4.1% at the end of yesterday's trading activity in China. This is the biggest single day gained since 2 March 2016 (4.3%) and followed the 2.5% jump in the index last Friday. This is to be expected given that ...

Under the hood of low-fee funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
Lower fee multi-asset funds that skimp on alternatives investments can take a beating in market downturns, new research by Zenith has found. Its 2018 multi asset diversified review compared the performance and drawdown of 88 funds, splitting them into ...

Australian retirement system weakens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
An ageing population is placing increased pressure on the Australian government as the nation's ability to ensure individual's retirement is both adequate and economically sustainable is diminishing. Australia has slipped down the ranks of the ...