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SSGA global equity beta head retires, promotes two

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... the firm in August 2000 and was a member of the global portfolio strategy team until 2018, covering both equities and currency, and serving as the head of portfolio strategists for the Asia Pacific region. Alex King takes on the role of head of global ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... discounting negative interest rates and/or quantitative easing. While most are still speculating over the "prospect" of a currency war, in my books it's well and truly underway with many central banks now lowering their target interest rates to cheapen ...

Chief economist update: The UK is not OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... 1.2%. While the FTSE-100 index continues to produce a positive return (7.7%) this year-to-date - supported by the weak currency - it has fallen by 5.6% from its 2019 high, recorded a few days after Boris Johnson assumed office as UK Prime Minister on ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... all three (more or less) gave similar rationales for their policy decisions - trade tensions, global slowdown, relative currency appreciation - all putting downward pressure on their domestic economic growth and inflation. "The members discussed the ...

Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
Trump's latest tat (branding Beijing a currency manipulator) for China's tit (allowing the yuan to fall below the psychological threshold of CNY7.0/US$1) highlights just how determined the US president is to win the trade war. Yes Virginia ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... be in Beijing have controlled the currency's exchange rate for fear of being officially branded by America as a "currency manipulator" and/or capital outflows that could lead to increased selling pressure on the yuan. But as we learned in Economics ...

HUB24 launches multi-currency functionality

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... 10 foreign currencies when implementing managed portfolio investment strategies on HUB24 with the platform's new multi-currency functionality. The new function will be available within international managed portfolios, giving managers the option to settle ...

Cooper Investors launches equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... were roughly 88% and 62% respectively of the reference index. The manager uses the MSCI All World net dividends in local currency as the reference index to measure the volatility and the downside capture but the strategy is mostly benchmark unaware ...

BetaShares launches FTSE 100 ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... of the net inflows of $4.4 billion into Aussie ETFs. Aussie investors were keen on fixed income ETFs but cooled off on currency and commodities ETFs in the first half, as strong inflows and buoyant markets pushed the total FUM over the $50 billion mark. ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
Aussie investors were keen on fixed income ETFs but cooled off on currency and commodities ETFs in the first half, as strong inflows and buoyant markets pushed the total FUM over the $50 billion mark. ETFs attracted $4.4 billion in net inflows in the ...