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2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
The global economy is toeing a fine line between economic growth and recession, with a number of threats poised to disrupt the already tepid global rally. That's according to the latest report from the World Bank on the global economic outlook for 2020 ...

China's growth to slow: PIMCO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... economic advisor, Joachim Fels, and chief investment officer global fixed income, Andrew Balls, believe growth in the emerging market will be in the range of 5-6%, down from the 6.1% originally forecast. "The Phase 1 trade deal, although with only marginal ...

Chief economist update: Stock rally heralds 2020 cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... 10-year Treasuries and 3-month bills - started to invert. The same goes for emerging equity markets. The MSCI emerging market index has risen by 14.3% this year to date, more than making up for 2018's 12.2% decline. The going got so tough, that the ...

Tech to topple banking: RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... also challenging banks' core role in facilitating payments. To date, this erosion has been most apparent in emerging market economies where payments systems were not meeting customers' needs," Kearns said. "New payments providers engaging with ...

Industry fund awards mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... totaling up to $150 million. Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund has made an allocation to emerging market debt in hard currency. The managers winning the allocation are Ashmore Group and PGIM, who were chosen from 38 managers that ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) kept monetary policy settings unchanged at its 12 December Governing Council meeting. "...the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the ...

ANZ Private hands out $3.5b mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
ANZ Private has awarded a $3.5 billion mandate for multi-asset tactical asset allocation advisory. DWS was the recipient of the mandate, providing advisory services for tactical asset allocation on multi-asset model portfolios. As a result of the mandate ...

China still positive despite unrest

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... in Asia at the moment. On the one hand every man and his dog is trying to tap into the wonders of China as an emerging market, and on the other there is mayhem as one of the nation's major financial hubs suffers as protests plague Hong Kong. So, does ...

Deutsche Bank offloads $76b in assets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... undergoing a major restructuring as it struggles to compete in tough market conditions. The assets were tied to emerging market debt and were part of the €282 billion in non-core assets Deutsche Bank chief executive Christian Sewing announced the lender ...

Global fixed income trust launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
MFS Investment Management has announced the launch of the MFS Global Opportunistic Fixed Income Trust designed to generate returns from diverse sources of alpha in a variety of market conditions. MFS said the trust takes an integrated research approach ...