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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 ...

Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... Economics team last month to which I added: This certainly doesn't fit with the current record low level of the official cash rate (1.5%) nor the current neutral stance in RBA monetary policy. The last time business conditions were nearly this lovely ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... market expectations when it conducted its last board meeting for 2017. The Australian central bank kept the official cash rate where it had been since August 2016, at a record low 1.5%. The December statement on monetary was much like in the other months ...

Grant Samuel wins RE mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... reduce from 10.25% to 10%, GST included. The hurdle rate necessary to earn a performance fee will change from the RBA Cash Rate to the Australian Government 10YR Bond Yield + 3.5% per annum. The Munro Global Growth Fund invests in international listed ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... Committee on Economics in his August 2014 testimony. His frustration was understandable for after taking the official cash rate from 4.75% in 2011 to 2.5% in 2014 in a succession of rate cuts, and then to 1.5% (where it is currently), and businesses' ...