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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after the Nasdaq index on Wall Street bolted to a fresh record peak. At 0646 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,750. Locally on Thursday, the Australian ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
The quantitative easing (QE) programs undertaken by the United States, Europe and Japan are essentially different from each other and investors should expect different economic impacts for each one of them. AXA Framlington head of Asia Mark Tinker said ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... Joseph Goebbels It may not be as sinister as what Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister intended it to be but the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continues to repeat its optimistic assessment over the outlook of its economy. The Japanese central bank would meet again ...

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Australian property groups who recently made hospitality acquisitions may feel their choices are vindicated by a new report suggesting alcohol consumption has "rebounded" in the country. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ...

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Investors with a long term focus could benefit from a strategy that targets low volatility at a moment when it is expected to raise, HSBC global asset management's head of global equities Angus Parker said. HSBC's Global Low Vol strategy sits within ...

Australia unprepared for FTAs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Australian financial services industry is unprepared for a "bonanza" arising from free trade agreements with China, Japan and South Korea, according to Finsia research. Multiple factors including rapid market growth (between 2.5% and 7% over the ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
As Australia's extraordinary mining boom peters out, the Government is finally getting behind financial services exports and will invest $6 billion in free trade agreements (FTA) in Asia. "If we could lift our service exports like higher education ...

Falling rates turn Aussie bonds into "a poor choice"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
Currency risk makes Australian government bonds "a relatively poor choice" for international investors despite their stellar AAA rating, according to Nikko Asset Management head of fixed income in Australia James Alexander. Alexander explained that ...

Asian equities on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
Regulatory, economic and technology-related changes are making Asian equities more appealing to investment managers this year, according to T. Rowe Price portfolio manager, Asia ex-Japan equity fund Anh Lu. Speaking at the T. Rowe Price equities discussion ...

That elusive 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... upward pressure on the Australian dollar. It's now fetching US$0.7866 up from this year's low of US$0.7533. As the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB) and every other "accommodating" central bank would tell you, we don't want that. ...