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Time running out to book places for Chief Economists Forum

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
With just two weeks to go before the Chief Economists Forum, independent economist and master of ceremonies for the breakfast event, Saul Eslake, has revealed what he expects to be the major talking points. The upcoming forum will take place in Melbourne ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... concerned investors in 2015 (more or less). But it's the return of China's summer of discontent - precipitous drop in its stock market and devaluation of the yuan - during this Northern Hemisphere winter that sent investors packing and out of risk trades. ...

Martin Currie completes PK Investment Management deal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
... consecutive years of gains and it will be interesting to see if this trend can be continued in 2016. "Whilst the stock market has doubled from the 2012 lows, profits have grown at the same pace and thus valuations are not as stretched as might be expected. ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... terrorism. All these were already happening in the third quarter - plus, remember the sharp volatility in China's stock market, the surprise devaluation of the yuan and... the Australian equity market's "worst three-month performance since the September ...

And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... depreciation back in August and the securities regulator's list of bans and regulations mandated to stabilise the tumbling stock market show that central command would not bat an eyelid at intervention to ensure it gets the result it wants. China may ...

AIRA calls for fast-tracked reporting season announcements

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... members shows that 69% of respondents are lodging their financial results to the ASX between 7:30am and 8:30am to give stock market analysts and investors more time to assess the results before trading commences. This is a critical period of the day ...

Pepared for "lift-off" watch out for "ceasing"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... Treasury securities at auction". Certainly, higher interest rates would have a flow on effect on the economy and the stock market but as the strong correlation between the S&P 500 index and the Fed's balance sheet shows, liquidity still plays a very ...

Appetite for international shares up 50% with major broker

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... BetaShares NASDAQ 100 ETF (NDQ), which provides investors exposure to the top 100 companies listed on the NASDAQ stock market. The ETF invests in NASDAQ's 100 largest companies by market cap, including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Intel ...

CalPERS sells $4.2bn in real estate assets

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... especially the case for private real estate investments, as public vehicles tend to correlate strongly with the general stock market."

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... faster than lows estimates of 6.4%. This wasn't supposed to happen. More so as it was in the third quarter when the stock market began tumbling (in July) - the Shanghai Composite Index dropped by 45.9% from peak to trough - and China devalued the yuan ...