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Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... closing level of 6241.46 points recorded on January 9 this year. As at yesterday's closing of 6234.95 points, the All Ords has turned around its negative year-to-date performance just a few days before into a 1.1% gain and is up 6.4% from the 2018 ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... 4.1% decline over the same period and South Korea's 1.3% fall. Sure, Argentina's Merval index dropped by more than the All Ords 5.7% between January and March this year, but this was after climbing to an all-time high in January this year. The All Ords ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... one would think it was already May (sell in May and go away). The S&P 500 index is down 3.2% this year to 23 March; the All Ords index is 3.9% lower; the Nikkei-225 index is down 9.4%; the Shanghai composite index has lost 4.7%; the FTSE-100 index has ...

Aussies turn to online trading in droves

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... investing in Australia, with investor numbers rising to their highest level in the post-GFC era. At the same time, the ALL ORDS also soared, providing strong support to the growth of the market," Investment Trends research director Irene Guiamatsia said. ...

Lennox launches micro-cap fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... existing flagship vehicle, the Lennox Australian Small Companies Fund, which has delivered an 8.48% return over the Small Ords from inception to 31 January 2018. Lennox principal and portfolio manager Liam Donohue said: "What you find at the micro-cap ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... Nasdaq 2.56 28.24 MSCI Emerging 1.83 27.82 Dow 1.02 25.08 S&P 500 1.70 19.42 Nikkei 225 1.78 19.10 MSCI World 1.69 16.14 All Ords 1.57 7.84 FTSE100 0.94 7.63 Stoxx 50 0.93 5.90 But beyond the positive portents of these market adage and phenomenon, the ...

Perennial LIC extends investment mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... top 100 stocks on the ASX. To illustrate, where financials occupy 40% of the ASX 100, they represent only 8% of the Small Ords. The manager also said markets are more inefficient further down the market cap spectrum, fuelled partly by poorer (and in ...

Pinnacle boutique launches $250m LIC offer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... Spheria Australian Smaller Companies Fund, which employs the same prospective strategy as the LIC, has outperformed the Small Ords by 7.3% since inception on 11 July 2016. Spheria isn't allowing for oversubscriptions due to capacity constraints. SEC ...

Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... date, the All Ordinaries index is up 0.9%. Never mind comparing it to the S&P 500 index - up 10.6% for the year - but the All Ords has not even produced even half of the FTSE100's 5.2% gain (despite lingering Brexit uncertainty); nor the Nikkei225's ...

Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... only that inflation remains low but is easing (see http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/not-so-happy-eofy-for-the-all-ords-100194081). First stop, America. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing jumped from a reading of 54.9 in May ...