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Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... renewed taper talks as soon as when the Fed meets on the 17th and 18th of this month and certainly not after the March quarter of next year. Whether the Fed tapers in December, January, February or March - or in one of the other nine months of 2014 -- ...

AMP's Ipac unveils Next Generation Advice program

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
... practices started to work on the program on 25 November and Steele expects it to be fully implemented by the end of the March quarter, 2014. The implementation follows a year of research that included the help of an independent expert, as well as a seven-week ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... year. Dateline June 2011:A US real GDP growth accelerated to an annualised rate of 3.2% from negative 1.3% in the March quarter.A Fed stopped QE2.A Growth slowed prompting the Fed to launch 'Operation Twist' in September of that year. Dateline September ...

Problems, problems, problems

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... Japanese government did in April 1997.A Result?A The Japanese economy contracted in 7 of 8 quarters starting in the March quarter of 1998...and inflation again became deflation.A The result...a bigger debt bill overall. The problem with all these problems ...

India's triple dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... economic growth has slowed from a high of 13.3% (year-on-year) in the first quarter of 2010 to just 3.0% in the March quarter of this year. The RBI has recently revised 2013/14 growth down to 5.5% from 5.7%. But this may be easier said than done for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... Bank is due to release its business survey for the June quarter, while HIA-RP Data Residential Land Report for the March quarter is also due out. In equities news, Woodside Petroleum is expected to post its second quarter report, while Duet Group and ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
The platform market has broken funds under advice (FUA) records in the March quarter, after plunging during the global financial crisis (GFC). An uptick in investor confidence and an increase in adviser productivity could be behind the growth of the ...

Retail managed funds' fortune set to slide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
Retail managed funds grew by 4.5% in the March quarter, but this growth is likely to be undone by a poor June quarter, according to figures released by Plan For Life Actuaries & Researchers. Overall retail managed funds grew by $24 billion in the first ...

CIO confidence slumps to nine-month low

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... at seven from a range of -100 to 100, where a score of zero is considered neutral. This is down from 35 for the March quarter and eight for December 2012. Despite a recent sell-off in global equity markets, chief investment officers still expect equities ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases national accounts data, including gross domestic product for the March quarter. Meanwhile, the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for May ...