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Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... 4.1% over the next 12 months," he said. Investors' concerns centred on the tension between the world's major economies. US President Donald Trump's administration was a main concern for more than half (53%) of investors, followed by China's ...

Advice associations combine for code monitoring

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... expensive. This scheme is being developed by the profession for the benefit of the public." The agreement will also "leverage economies of scale and will provide an efficient, streamlined code monitoring solution for the financial advice profession." ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... 2020 (from 1.8% and 1.7%, respectively). That's still cool. But if the slowdown in the region's three biggest economies persists - Germany and Italy are just a quarter away from a technical recession and France's year-on-year GDP growth have ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... was turning into 2018... so good, that financial markets were pencilling in exit strategies from the world's major economies, led by the Fed's on-going move towards policy normalisation. Then "Tariff Trump" happened, China slowed, Japan lurched ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... think it's now close to "neutral" (whatever that neutral rate is). Sure, we can extrapolate to our hearts desire but economies don't operate in a vacuum. Things get in the way. Proof? About this time last year, Factset's stories were: Upbeat ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) painted an optimistic picture of the global and domestic economies when it held its policy meeting last month (6 November) before concluding that "...the stance of monetary policy unchanged at this meeting would be ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... contemporaneous accommodative ECB policies of asset purchases and lower interest rates plus, the general lift in the global economies back then. Still, it would be a good backstop (if necessary) to the end of QE before 2019 begins.

Productivity Commission pushes for superannuation scale benefits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The Productivity Commission has made another "compelling" argument for economies of scale in superannuation, estimating it to save the industry $340 million each year. The benefits however, aren't flowing to members. In its final supplementary paper ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... rear view mirror shows that it has. It has propelled the S&P 500 to high and higher highs and the economy - and the economies of other world economies along with it. Money was plentiful (as the printing presses of the Fed, the ECB, the BOJ and the BOE ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... known" and put numbers on it. "Growth forecasts for next year have been revised down for most of the world's major economies. Global GDP is now expected to expand by 3.5% in 2019, compared with the 3.7% forecast in last May's Outlook, and by ...