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Australian Ethical appoints new executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
Australian Ethical Investment named a new executive officer, superannuation in addition to a raft of appointments to its investment, ethics and marketing team. The ethical investment manager confirmed head of product operations Matthew Gahan is replacing ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... would also make good their counter-threat for retaliatory actions...and the trade war is on! But instead of diving US equities rose - the S&P 500 gained 0.5%; the Dow 0.4%; the Nasdaq 0.4%. Buy on news? Perhaps. It could be markets are hoping that Trump's ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... of 1.83%. Surely, the persistent rise in bond yields would have added the faster than expected inflation report for US equities and even compounded by data (released on the same day) of weaker than expected retail spending. US retail sales fell by 0.3% ...

Chief economist update: The Fed's force is with us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... $64 million question is if this presages a bear market in the making - technically defined as a 20% or more drop in US equities. Has good news (on the economy and in terms of the Fed's efforts to return monetary policy towards normality) turned bad? ...

SMSFs shifting focus for diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... traded international stocks last year by SMSFs. "International trading surged nearly 100% over the previous year, with US equities and US ETFs the most traded equity instruments on international markets throughout the year,'' NAB director of SMSF and ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... Watching Wall Street break one record high after another make it very tempting to join the herd or raise allocation of US equities in portfolios. There's the fear of missing out (FOMO) and then there's the shorts that, time and again in the current cycle ...

Fintech exposes SMSFs to global shares

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... matter most in the future," he said. Stake also announced the beta launch of Stake Premium, which gives SMSFs access to US equities without charging brokerage fees. Citing data from the Financial Services Council, only 0.6% of SMSFs are invested in overseas ...

Wall Street interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... as usual on Wall Street. The sum of all fears - well, nearly all - many investors braced for didn't quite add up. US equities, the yield on 10-year US Treasuries and the US dollar, they all fell down last week as investors feared an escalation of tensions ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... breach of the US debt ceiling and, lately, Hurricane Harvey - singly or combined - couldn't dent positive sentiment for US equities. The S&P 500 index is up 10.6% this year to date and a mere 0.2% down from the record high reached on 7 August; The Dow ...

Japanese broker targets Aussie SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... Japanese customers to trade Japanese equities and mutual funds. Later it added international products such as FX and US equities. In 2009, Monex acquired BOOM Securities in Hong Kong - reportedly the oldest online broker in Asia. In 2011, Monex acquired ...