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Liquidnet acquires fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... on 3000 publicly traded companies listed in the US and 15 central banks including the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank of Japan, US Fed Reserve and European "Prattle is yet another powerful tool for asset managers to discover actionable insight from the ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy policy by the central banks of the Eurozone and Japan, among others; and (at the time) hopes for a US-China trade deal, improving sentiment over the global growth outlook and therefore ...

Australians retire too wealthy: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... "They've assumed people live until 92 and have reduced function after 80. I have an aunt who is 93 she travelled to Japan this year, she went to Finland last year and saw the Northern Lights." Knox also criticised the modelling for looking at single ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... the same or lower in the future? It becomes a self-fulfilling slower growth prophecy or even economic contraction. Think Japan since the 1990s. A more sinister repercussion is that persistently low inflation could raise doubts about central banks' ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
As if the world hasn't had enough of the overhanging pall engendered by lingering trade tensions, US President Trump is about to raise the stakes and expand the scope to currency manipulators. This I learned from The New York Times (NYT) on May ...

Chief economist update: Devilish details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
It's still a month away, but when the policy board of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) meets to assess the state of the economy and its monetary policy response on 19-20 June, it could claim the economy is progressing as printed at its meeting in April. ...

Australia lags on dividends

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... the dividend flat during the period. Australia's lagging dividend payouts come as the region it sits in, Asia Pacific ex Japan records the strongest dividend growth in 10 years. The region was up 14.7% on a headline basis for total dividend payout, mainly ...

Beware: Zombie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... Equities Fund, three ETF Securities products (physical palladium, platinum and precious metal), and three UBS IQ products (Japan ethical, USA ethical and research preference Australian share). The funds under management across the nine funds range from ...

Life expectancy declining: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... the UK pension system, comprising 81% of the market, according to Willis Towers Watson. Such schemes are also popular in Japan (96%), Canada (95%) and the Netherlands (94%). The Grattan Institute believes Australians can expect to live 82.5 years on ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... tit-for-tat between these two economic behemoths. Trump hasn't completely set his crosshairs on Tokyo, but not only is Japan caught in the crossfire of the recent Sino-Yankee trade tensions, it's become collateral damage via the appreciation ...