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Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
"Come on, Barbie, let's go party"... until 2024. In Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) parlance: "The board is committed to maintaining highly supportive monetary conditions until its goals are achieved. The board will not increase the cash rate until ...

Chief economist update: Chinese manufacturing ramps up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
Activity in China's manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors returned with a vengeance after a brief pause during the country's Lunar New Year holidays. National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data show that China's manufacturing PMI rebounded ...

Unlisted assets deliver modest returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
New research reveals that MySuper products with high weightings to unlisted assets provide modest returns but contribute lower volatility and higher autocorrelation. Rainmaker's latest RMetric report sought to find out if the performance of MySuper ...

Lowy-backed Assembly acquires childcare centres

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
The Lowy Family Group backed Assembly Funds Management has acquired six early learning centres in North West Sydney. The acquisition is in partnership with Harrington Property Funds Management and will see the six childcare centres operated by Young ...

Chief economist update: Strike while iron ore cools

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
The iron ore price has fallen by more than 4% over the past two weeks which, according to reports is due to concerns over further reduction cuts in Tangshan - China's top steel-producing city - under its anti-pollution plan. But akin to previous ...

Cboe acquires Chi-X

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
Cboe Global Markets has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Chi-X Asia Pacific, Australia's most significant competitor exchange to the ASX. The transaction is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2021, subject to regulatory ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
The monetary and fiscal masters of the US of A fronted the Senate Banking Committee - as required under the March 2020 COVID-19 relief law - singing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. In his testimony, Federal Reserve chair ...

COVID-19 spurs robo-advice demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... payments (25%). Robots are also helping many invest in the stock market. An overwhelming number of participants (82%) predict robots will replace financial advisers by 2026. Nearly half (42%) are of the opinion that the change has already taken place ...

Insider trading four times more common

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... conducted by Vinay Patel and Talis Putnins from the University of Technology Sydney. The researchers developed a new model to predict the prevalence of insider trading based on information from all prosecuted insider trading cases in the US over the ...

Hyperion ETF goes live

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
After previously announcing its venture into active ETFs, Hyperion has listed its global equities strategy on the Australian Securities Exchange. The Hyperion Global Growth Fund (HYGG) is the investment manager's first active ETF and provides access ...