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Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... Looking back the Fed made a prudent decision back in June and in September. Back in June it was Grexit and China's stock market collapse. In September, while Grexit went, it was quickly replaced with concerns over slowing China and slumping commodity ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
The recent plunge in local and global stock markets saw super fund returns dip but performance is still solid over the longer term. According to figures from Rainmaker, the SelectingSuper workplace default option MySuper Index fell sharply during August ...

Lazard launches new alternatives fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
Lazard Asset Management has launched a new long/short European equity fund. The Lazard European Alternative Fund, which is UCITS compliant, comprises a liquid portfolio of around 60 European large and mid-cap stocks, both long and short, selected on ...

Invast launches thematic model portfolios

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... could provide a handy hedge as part of a very well diversified portfolio, especially given the likelihood of further stock market volatility ahead," he said. Invast Australia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Invast Securities, which is listed in Japan ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... bank have "requested" banks to tighten requirements on foreign exchange remittances. If China could do it for the stock market, why not the currency market? The strength of China's determination to stabilise its currency market is underscored by the ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... 6.3% from 6.5%. This is a reversal from the optimism that prevailed just a bit and a month ago - despite China's stock market beginning to convulse - when Beijing reported growth of 7.0% in the June quarter, faster than consensus expectations for a 7.8% ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... beyond travelling the world at that point. It was only on his way back home from Europe that he remembered the "dummy stock market" competition for the Herald Sun he had participated in in high school that he realised what he wanted to be: a stockbroker. ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... invest in it anyway. So it's harder to find untapped opportunities there." What's going on in China? "The Chinese stock market has been behaving like a drunken sailor on short leave. And then, the drunken sailor goes back to the boat and has lost all ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Are we barking at the wrong tree? Let me rephrase that, we are barking at the wrong tree. It has been less than a month ago - before this wailing and gnashing of teeth - that bad China news brought hopes that central command would fight back with stimulus ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... "ASX loses $60 billion in worst day since the GFC" (9news.com.au) or "More than $70 billion wiped from Australian stock market" (SBS) and other headlines impressing the point that the Australian sky is falling. They refer to the S&P/ASX 200 index's 4.1% ...