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Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... Germany predicting GDP growth to plummet by 6.3% this year. For sure and for certain, the GDP numbers that will come out from Japan and the UK will be equally concerning, if not worse. This will make the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) world ...

CBA sells CommSec Adviser Services

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
The Commonwealth Bank has entered into an agreement to sell AUSIEX, which trades as CommSec Adviser Services, to a Japanese firm. Nomura Research Institute, a Japanese technology solutions and business consulting firm, has entered into an $85 million ...

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... thought imaginable by most economists, the headline index falling far below consensus estimates." The au Jibun Bank flash Japan composite PMI dropped to 27.8 in April from 36.2 in the previous month. This is the sharpest fall in the survey's record ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... While Belgium, Finland and Norway received above average grades. Along with Australia, Morningstar pointed to Canada, China, Japan, New Zealand and the US as "below average" fund markets needing to improve. The research house did not assign a "bottom" ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... European equities. We see greater upside elsewhere in an eventual recovery. Europe is more dependent on foreign trade." Japan equities are underweight (limited fiscal and monetary policy room for its central bank) while EM equities are neutral (cheaper ...

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) added another monetary policy term to our vocabulary at its March 2020 meeting - Enhancement of Monetary Easing - as it tries to limit the economic fallout from the coronavirus. It had the same label for its expanded policy initiative ...

Best, worst global equities funds in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... local S&P/ASX Small Ords Total Return fell 26.72%, global stock market indices were down between 6.26% (MSCI AC Asia Ex Japan NR AUD) and 13.09% (MSCI Europe NR AUD). Consequently, all global equities funds analysed posted negative returns for the quarter ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... because not only is out numero uno export market on the ropes (buying 32.7% of our total exports as at 2019), the second - Japan (9%) - third - South Korea (5%) - fourth, fifth and down the line are also in line for contractions in their respective economies. ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... loss to global GDP over 2020 and 2021 from the pandemic crisis could be around US$9 trillion, greater than the economies of Japan and Germany, combined," Gopinath said. "For the first time since the Great Depression both advanced economies and emerging ...

Man Group hires from BlackRock

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
Man GLG, the discretionary investment manager of Man Group, has hired a new head of Asia ex-Japan equities from BlackRock. Andrew Swan will join Man GLG from Q3 this year and will be based in the Sydney office. Swan was most recently head of Asia and ...