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Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
... industry best practice - adopting what leaders are doing in the field to mitigate risk. "We've done field trips to factories in China and Bangladesh in the past and recently we went to Cambodia. When you go on field trips you never get to see the worst ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... which will be the path that the US Fed takes with interest rates. "Obviously everyone is concerned about the trade wars with China and the US but I think that is a much smaller consideration than the path of US interest rates. If indeed the Fed signals ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Commodity Total Return Index's year to date return is negative 7.4%. "International developments." China and the Eurozone are slowing, Japan and Germany are a quarter away from a technical recession, Italian budget deficit ...

Final call for 2019 Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... looks deep into his crystal ball, is trade. He said by the end of 1Q19 there might not be a trade deal between the US and China, but there'll be "some sort of direction where trade is going." For the next three days (December 19 to 21) China's ...

Chief economist update: The clown in the White House

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... that with a very strong dollar and virtually no inflation, the outside world blowing up around us, Paris is burning and China way down, the Fed is even considering yet another interest rate hike. Take the Victory!" Nah, the Fed's not even considering ...

Chief economist update: Does the Fed lift or cut interest rates just for the heck of it?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... Brexit uncertainty has been removed. This is good. I would like to regurgitate the other good news with regards to the US-China trade war but, given Trump's state of mind and his unpredictability, I'll pass on this for Trump can always change ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... world's major economies, led by the Fed's on-going move towards policy normalisation. Then "Tariff Trump" happened, China slowed, Japan lurched a quarter away from recession, Eurozone's economic activity lost momentum underscored by the contraction ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... weighing its countercyclical options. The recent arrest of the Huawei executive in Canada has just upped the ante on the US-China trade battle and adds to the list of challenges the world faces. One that's voiced out by IMF managing director Christine ...

Will Aussie equities overcome 2019 challenges?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... risk factors are clouding the market and economic outlook, including falling house prices locally, political risks the U.S.-China trade conflict and tightening global monetary policies," Jenneke said. Jenneke - who runs the firm's Australian Equity Strategy ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... - steady interest rates. This is because the RBA will find that although global growth is continuing - and the latest US-China trade war got a stay of execution over the weekend (Trump will hold off from raising the 10% tariff on Chinese exports to 25% ...