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Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
"You may have noticed that at yesterday's meeting, the Reserve Bank Board left the cash rate unchanged at 1.5%, where it has been since August 2016." This is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... the AIMS Fixed Income Fund will aim to achieve a 3% per annum gross return above the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cash rate and before fees over any rolling three-year period. It will invest in a diversified portfolio of between 25 to 35 strategies ...

Chief economist update: Australia low on credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
Those still expecting the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise the official cash rate - even at least once this year - may have to re-think their call. For sure, economic dynamics may change sometime down the road but given the current slowing trend ...

Unlisted property top performer in 2017: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... year. While rising bond yields is a risk to values, demand for assets generating yields with attractive spreads over the cash rate should continue to underpin values, the report noted. "The case for owning unlisted property as an investment to provide ...

Don't time equity returns with interest rates: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... investors not to base investment strategies on this myth. The research analysed the relationship between the official cash rate, government bond yields and equity market returns. After analysing the S&P/ASX 300 index monthly returns, RBA cash rates changes ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... depends on upcoming data. The minutes of the RBA meeting reveal that our central bank sees the next move in the official cash rate to be up, provided that the unemployment rate declines and inflation rises in line with its forecast. But data dependence ...

La Trobe marches credit fund beyond $2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
Self-managed superannuation fund members have driven the La Trobe Financial Credit Fund to more than $2 billion in funds under management, tripling its size in three years. The fund, which sits on more than 10 platforms and 200 approved product lists ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... predicting that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would maintain the status quo on monetary policy and keep the official cash rate at a record low of 1.5% for all of 2018 would be correct too. It kept policy unchanged at its 6 February meeting. Not ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... perhaps the more direct cause was the Reserve Bank of Australia's (policy response), it continued to raising the official cash rate from what was then the all-time low of 3% in 2009 to 4.75% by the end of 2010 before it went on a rate cutting spree that ...

2018 Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards

JOHN DYALL  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... ranking across five of the most commonly cited risk measures. In all cases the risk free rate of return is the average cash rate for the past three years. The risk measures used within the Investment Leadership Awards are: - Sharpe ratio - the ratio ...