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Sovereign investors go back to fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... foreign investors through China A-shares and bond markets through Bond Connect. Renminbi emerged as the most favoured currency for the year ahead with 27% saying they will increase allocations to it over the next 12 months, which Invesco expects to be ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs a cheaper A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... on the Australian central bank to cut the official cash rate down to zero - as some "extremists" foresee. A floating currency is, after all, designed to restore equilibrium in the economy. Case in point. The A$ absorbed some of the negative shocks from ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
"China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being the dummies who sit back and politely watch as other countries continue to play their games ...

Xplore Wealth launches new solution

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... discretionary investments, super and pension money. The firm said Xplore Wrap offers "a world of investments" with multi-currency and multi-market investment access and trading through a broker of the adviser's choice. Xplore Wealth non-executive chair ...

Financial scams smash Australia

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... wide variety of scams - defined in our report as 'social engineering' frauds - including investment, romance, crypto-currency, false billing and tax office/government agency scams. Further, it should be remembered that much fraud goes unreported." With ...

Franklin Templeton names institutional business director

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... additional board duties as director and responsible manager. Prior to that, he was an associate director of fixed income, currency and commodities at Westpac for six years. "With Matthew's vast experience across distribution and investments, we are well ...

Facebook to launch own currency

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
The social media giant revealed plans for its first financial services product, a digital wallet and its own cryptocurrency. Facebook is set to launch its own digital wallet in 2020, to allow people to access and participate in the Libra network, Facebook's ...

Chief economist update: Another RBA rate cut should be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... US$0.6879 - down 2.3% this year to date its lowest level in three years - at the end of last week's trading. The local currency is down 1.8% (year-to-date) on the trade weighted exchange as it depreciated versus the world's major currencies ...

Frontier expands business, hires five

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... recently an options management analyst at AustralianSuper. Iain McMahon joins as a consultant in Frontier's debt and currency team. He previously worked at J.P. Morgan's London office where he has spent the last four years providing quantitative ...

Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... slowdown." The Australian dollar's depreciation shielded this 'lucky country' from the downdrafts of the Asian currency crisis and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management and Russian default in 1997/98; the US recession and the terrorists' ...