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Chief economist update: Equity market disconnect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... nearly a third of their value this year to March 23, the MSCI equity index (down 30.5%) and the MSCI emerging equity market index (down 27.3%) have, in less than three months, nearly recouped what they've lost in the first three months of the year. ...

Global ETF leaders push for reform

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... securities issued by a corporate issuer (not by a pooled investment vehicle) that is linked to the performance of a market index and trades on an exchange. ETCs however, would include pooled investment vehicles with shares that invest in assets other ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... The Fed's balance sheet expansion appears to have put a floor under the S&P 500 index. The benchmark US equity market index has risen by more than 22% from the three-year low it plumbed on the 23rd of March this year.

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
I would have described him as 'super', but I've already used that moniker in reference to former European Central Bank (ECB) president Marion Draghi when he did "whatever it took" to save the splintering of the single currency region from ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
BlackRock will double its ESG ETF offerings, dump investments in thermal coal and increase sustainable assets under management tenfold this decade. All this, just six months after it was revealed that BlackRock lost more than $133 billion by investing ...

Chief economist update: Stock rally heralds 2020 cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... 10-year Treasuries and 3-month bills - started to invert. The same goes for emerging equity markets. The MSCI emerging market index has risen by 14.3% this year to date, more than making up for 2018's 12.2% decline. The going got so tough, that the ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... correlation between the Japanese yen and the Nikkei-225 index makes the 4.8% drop in the Japan's benchmark equity market index hardly surprising - one that has taken down its 2019 return from a high of 11.5% in April this year to a meagre 3.3% (still ...

Active, passive investing continues to confuse: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... the ability to take advantage of short-term market movements, while 68% expected their portfolio to differ from the market index. Louise Watson, Natixis' head of distribution in Australia, said given more challenging conditions, investors were well served ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... August and November. FTSE Russell completed the first phase of its inclusion in June in which 5.5% of its emerging market index comprised China A shares. J.P. Morgan emerging markets and Asia Pacific equities investment specialist, Alexander Treves ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... US$325 billion - sent the Shanghai composite index dropping by 13.4% from its 2019 high. China's benchmark equity market index has since recovered 6.4% of its losses resulting from optimism over the Trump-Xi meeting at the G20. The Yuan/US exchange ...