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Simple diversification better than 'smart beta'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... less extreme, and if smaller countries can stop being so competitive. "The periphery countries are falling behind [in GDP growth] so the level of GDP as a whole is well below its previous peak," he explained.

All Ords at 5000 overvalued but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... in black and white. In its quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy (released on 7 February), the RBA declared that: "GDP growth is expected to be below trend at around 2A1/2 per cent over 2013 before picking up to just under 3 per cent over 2014. These ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... growing stronger than expected this year. The Philippines and Taiwan just reported better than forecasts December quarter GDP growth and Singapore posting the lowest unemployment rate in five years. There are positive signs in Japan too. Retail sales ...

Super concessions cost $32bn in 2011-12

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... superannuation tax concessions is expected to climb 48% to $45 billion. The 11% annual increase contrasts with inflation and GDP growth that is expected to be within the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) mandated 2-3% band. Superannuation tax concession ...

ANZ opens new branch in China

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... trade and logistics hub for China's East Coast. The economy in Hangzhou has rapidly developed with double-digit annual GDP growth rate over the past two decades.

Structural shifts reposition EMs as less risky investments

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... Eastern Europe has rarely been so secularly robust as it is now, particularly in comparison to many developed countries." GDP growth, foreign exchange reserve accumulation, current account surpluses, a growing middle class, robust fiscal and monetary ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... a double-dip in America and a hard landing in China that gained currency last year. To be sure, to be sure, US real GDP growth slowed to an annualised rate of 1.3% in the June quarter of 2012, but that's no recession my friends and it certainly isn't ...

China primed for encouraging rebound: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
While global demand is likely to remain fragile, HSBC maintains its above-consensus forecast that China's 2013 GDP growth will recover to 8.6% after bottoming out in the fourth quarter of 2012. Much of HSBC's projected China rebound in 2013 and beyond ...

Good US housing news gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... manufacturers is why US economists are getting excited that the house construction sector could be a net contributor to GDP growth for the first time since 2005. The Federal Reserve echoes these results with just released survey figures showing 6.9% ...

It's just plain dumb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... market - as measured by the All Ordinaries index - lags 'em problem economies. Australians are worried because our real GDP growth slowed to 3.1% in the year to the third quarter from 3.8% in the June quarter and, according to the Australian Business ...