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Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in surveying the economic landscape, the sheer scale and severity of the global lockdown has been striking. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF, said the "Great ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic could lead emerging markets to lose the last decade in progress, as the world sinks deeper into a global recession far worse than the Global Financial Crisis. That's according to State Street Global Advisors head of global ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
The International Monetary Fund has predicted Australia's GDP will be -6.7% this year due to the effects of COVID-19. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF, said the pandemic has resulted in a collapse ...

Why Vanguard won't do gold ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
Australia's largest ETF issuer is wary of adding a gold ETF to its 20-strong lineup, even though one of them cracked $1 billion in assets last year. Vanguard has $20.6 billion and 29 ETFs in Australia, 26 of which are passive strategies and three ...

Virus fallout worse than GFC: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
The International Monetary Fund has called on every government around the world to introduce substantial targeted policies to support the economy through the coronavirus epidemic. In a blog post, Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the ...

Alternative investment manager partners with VC firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
An ASX-listed alternative investment manager has entered into non-binding term sheet with New York-based early stage venture capital firm Scout Ventures for a stake in a proposed US$50 million fund. Auctus Alternative Investments will acquire up to ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... Korea, Iran and Venezuela (USA Today) - the list goes on. Trump's propensity to alienate almost everyone (including his own GOP party) should be reason enough to send investors heading for the hills and digging bunkers...but they're not. Equity indices ...

Ardea appoints retail funds head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
Fixed income manager Ardea Investment Management has appointed a new head of retail funds. Gopi Karunakaran joins Ardea from Saka Capital in Singapore, where he was a portfolio manager. Before that, he was also a portfolio manager at Tricadia Capital ...

Republican Party-themed ETF launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
An ETF that invests in companies greatly supporting the Republican Party is set to launch. The Point Bridge GOP Stock Tracker Index will invest in S&P 500 companies with employees and political action committees or PACs that are "highly supportive of ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... said Americans are becoming better informed and educated about their finances. Pres Obama's US oil production boom At the GOP National Convention in Cleveland this week some speakers accused President Obama of trying to shut down the US oil industry. ...