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Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Although the last two months have been marked by increased volatility and disruption, small caps have largely outperformed. During March, small caps performed broadly in line with their larger counterparts, with the ASX Small Ordinaries Index dropping ...

Volatility continues to drive investors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... significant movement in the market, volatility also increased. As measured by the average daily movement in the All Ordinaries Index, volatility hit 1.6% in April, compared to just 0.4% last April. Further, expected future volatility - as measured by ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... underperforming its peers: the S&P 500 (-12.0%); the FTSE-100 (-23.7%); the Nikkei-225 (-16.8%) and even the All Ordinaries index (-20.8%). For good reason. The rush to unlock could unleash a second wave of infections. Then again, even if this second ...

Chief economist update: Great Scott! Mighty Mo to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... 80% and their unemployment rate predictions nearly halved from 16% to just around 8.5%. So much so that the All Ordinaries index surged by 6.6% on the day the government announced its latest cash splash - outperforming the S&P 500's 3.4% gain on ...

Bearish sentiment bites Aussie investors

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... adopt a more defensive stance in their asset allocation," he said. The research found investors believe the All Ordinaries Index will only rise by 1.9% over the coming year, following an 11% gain in 2019. With analysts warning a repeat 2019 is unlikely ...

Chief economist update: Strength in jobs downs RBA rate cut expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... surprisingly, the Australian jumped by more than half a percent versus the greenback but surprisingly, the All Ordinaries index dropped by 0.7% (sure, lower interest rates helps drive market valuation but stronger employment growth drives sentiment ...

Chief economist update: Fundamentally overvalued

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... embers of the bushfire. I'm equally heartened by the rise and rise in the Australian equity market - the All Ordinaries index has risen by 5.2% to a new record high in the first two weeks of this year, adding to its 20.9% gain in 2019. It'll ...

Chief economist update: Aussie Black Friday spend will end Saturday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... bushfire inferno still raging, Australia needs all the good news it could get... and it's arrived. The All Ordinaries index surged by 0.7% to a new record high of 7041.9 points and the Australian dollar appreciated by 0.6% to US$0.6901 at the close ...

Aussie active managers underperform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
Rainmaker research revealed that over the three years to June 2019 the median managers in all active investment categories underperformed their respective benchmark returns. The research looked at active core, high performance and small companies funds. ...

Chief economist update: This is a job for the RBA (and the Treasury)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... it meets on the first Tuesday of October - taking the official cash rate to a new record low of 0.75%. The All Ordinaries index gained 0.5% and the yield on 10-year Australian government bonds fell to 1.06% (1.13%) as investors switched to these relatively ...