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Australian investors pivot portfolios

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2023
... that due to major changes in the world, portfolio strategies need to keep pace, while 77% said that the influence of geopolitics on investment strategies is much more significant today than it has been over the last 30 years. "The current environment ...

Crestone warns on economic challenges

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
... significantly weaker than normal leading into the election." According to Crestone, this reflects the impact of global geopolitics, inflation, and rising interest rates, which will remain dominant in the period ahead. When it comes to foreign policy ...

Geopolitics to change ESG approach: Survey

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
A new survey from bfinance has found 39% of investors predict re-evaluation of ESG approach due to recent geopolitical developments. This is according to a snap poll from bfinance of 418 institutional investors from 39 different countries. The results ...

Zurich launches new fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... directly relate to them, rather than a benchmark. The investment team currently foresees the structural drivers as geopolitics, monetary policy, sustainability and technology. From these, the team has identified investment themes that fit within and ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... winners and losers for investors in emerging markets. "Over the past couple of weeks, we have begun to see the return of geopolitics as a driver of the markets," he said. "While COVID-19 continues to be front and center as a macroeconomic, societal and ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... upswing. This subdued growth is a consequence of rising trade barriers; elevated uncertainty surrounding trade and geopolitics; idiosyncratic factors causing macroeconomic strain in several emerging market economies; and structural factors, such as low ...

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... participation rate but unchanged average hourly earnings growth. Sponsored by PIMCO Ben Bernanke On Growth, Trade, Geopolitics The tepid growth in wages - which feeds into overall inflation in the economy - should give the Fed some breathing space as ...

Macron won't stop populist tide: William Blair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... exercise, where you have several players, competing constituencies, and differing objectives," he said. "But where geopolitics differs from markets is that each player has a mutual incentive to deliberately increase risk and create uncertainty that otherwise ...

InvestSense launches asset allocation guide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... estimate of expected returns, the second section delves into medium-term themes that could affect these estimates (like geopolitics, macro-economics, demographics, etc) and finally the Economic Summary looks at short-term indicators that tend to be quickly ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... of the month were overdone," Jasper Lawler at CMC Markets said. "The encounter in Ukraine was a hefty reminder that geopolitics cannot be ignored." HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares have closed 0.62 per cent higher, with a surge in telecommunication stocks ...