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Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
... interest rates becomes imperative before low inflation turns into lower inflation expectations and morphs into deflation. Nice problem to have, hey? Sure is, if not for the rise and rise in the US equity market - the S&P 500 (up 17.4% YTD) and the Nasdaq ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... such, the proportions in the index have changed - and so has the underlying risk within the index. It went from having a "nice balance of opportunities" to something that is focused on government risk, he says. Government issuance, which tends to be ...

Social media reacts to SIBOS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Attendees of the world's largest banking conference took to social media to share their SIBOS experience. Swift at sibos today: "The benefits of DLT are promising, but delivering it is still years away." There are over 100 financial institutions with ...

Budget means Aussies can get more from retirement

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
Diversified wealth managers IOOF and StatePlus have led industry support for superannuation measures introduced in last night's Budget. IOOF highlighted how Australians stand to benefit from changes to superannuation policy which would allow planning ...

Chief economist update: Talking trade tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... can't help but agree with Calabria's summation: "I'm very optimistic that what we will hear from this week is a lot of very nice sounding promises and commitments but we have to be diligent about making sure that those nice sounding promises and commitments ...

Wealth management products make big leaps in digital sales readiness

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... them all" in digital readiness, the fintech said. "Banks have accepted that online account opening is a must have, not a 'nice to have'. The focus now is on whether the largest banks can transform their entire customer engagement across all product lines ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... and 2020 (both revised higher from December's forecast of 2.0% for both years). And so what we have ladies and gents, is a nice backdrop for more gentle and gradual path towards policy normalisation. As the dot plots and the "projected appropriate policy ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... the timing of the next move - up or down or sideways - in interest rates at the end of the next two calendar years. It's so nice (even profitable) to know where the men and women of the FOMC are taking the fed funds rate going forward, innit? But as ...

First Aussie fixed income mandate for global manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... Australian equities mandate. "At one end we typically hold a lot of consumer staples because they're more durable and have nice economic returns plus the compounding rate of growth - whether it's in emerging markets or sectors like cosmetics and skincare," ...

What price Brexit certainty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
At least people of the world know what the Fed has in store for them come December - another 25 basis point increase in the fed funds rate come the 13th of the month. 'tis not the same for the UK where Brexit negotiations remain up in the air... and ...