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AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... medium term, describing it as "strong but not stellar." Less than a quarter (21%) expect AUM to grow in line with recent global GDP trends as many believe new entrants equipped with technology-based solutions and lower cost bases threaten AUM and fee ...

Chief economist update: Where sentiment goes, there too is spending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
... personal consumption expenditures will remain the strongest sector in the national economy in 2019 - up by 2.7% compared with a GDP gain of 2.2%." All good if this can be sustained. But, according to Jason: "Perhaps more importantly, consumers' long ...

Chief economist update: Is the US about to join the global slowdown club?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... to December from 4.2% in November and 4.7% in October. As such, the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow forecast model now predicts US GDP growth of 1.5% (annualised) in the December 2018 quarter - nearly halving the 2.7% rate the model predicted only a week before ...

Chief economist update: Unchanged RBNZ stance would force it to change stance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... the weaker global impetus, we expect low interest rates and government spending to support a pick-up in New Zealand's GDP growth over 2019. Low interest rates, and continued employment growth, should support household spending and business investment. ...

Chief economist update: UK economy slows on Brexit woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... activity abroad and the greater effects from Brexit uncertainties at home." It prompted the British central bank to lower its GDP growth forecast to 1.2% this year (from the previous estimate if 1.7%). In addition, the BOE said: "CPI inflation fell to ...

Asia, emerging markets to lead in 2019

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... growth, then we think risk is mispriced. It's mispriced because of the trade issues and the short-term fall in revisions of GDP, PMIs and earnings. We think you should position that by buying emerging markets."

Chief economist update: Euro contagion redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... currency region is still optimistic compared with the EU Commission's latest forecasts, where it predicts the region's GDP to grow by 1.3% this year (from earlier forecasts of 1.9%) and by 1.6% in 2020 (from 1.7%). It's not always the case ...

Chief economist update: RBA still in denial

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... interest rates." And then came the cut at its February 2015 meeting, despite data available to the RBA at the time showed GDP growth averaged 2.6% in 2014, the weighted median inflation measure and wages growth both averaged 2.6%. The unemployment rate ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... economy - the third biggest in the Eurozone - is officially in a technical recession. La vita is no longer e bella! Italian GDP contracted by 0.2% in the December 2018 after shrinking by 0.1% in the previous three-month period. To be sure, economists ...

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... This is the picture of what Richard's talking about: US household consumption accounts for nearly 70% of America's GDP (versus exports' about 12% contribution). Sure, the continued strength in the US labour market and the boost to personal ...