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Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
The drop (big time) in US durable goods orders - a leading indicator of business investment -- in December is raising doubts over the durability of the economy's expansion. To be sure, most economists were already expecting orders to take a hit after ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
When the going gets tough...... the tough promises to get going. For a change, a number of equity markets around the globe finished flashing green numbers last week. The All Ordinaries index, for one, closed 0.4% in the plus - pitiful you might say ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Lift-off is literally - and for all intents and purposes - yesterday's news. It's now another day and speculations would slowly trickle over how "gradual" the pace of subsequent US Fed rate hikes would be over the course of the following year and thereafter. ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Dear oh dear, the opening lines I intended to scribble on this momentous day have all been taken. "We have lift off". The Sydney Morning Herald already had first dibs. "The Fed Awakens". Not a chance, The Economist magazine got in first. "End of an ...

Nikko returns global equities to overweight stance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... due to a forecasted moderate rise in global bond yields. IT also expects the US dollar to continue appreciating. "Our new macro-backdrop scenario had moderately more positive ramifications for global equities, with the US rising mildly but the other ...

PIMCO appoints world leaders to advisory board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
PIMCO has appointed five world leaders to a newly-created Global Advisory Board that will contribute to the firm on global economic, political and strategic developments. The board will be chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The ...

CBA to close institutional equities business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
Commonwealth Bank is closing its institutional equities business following a strategic partnership with Goldman Sachs investment bank. Commonwealth Bank's proprietary institutional equities team that forms part of the bank's institutional banking and ...

Hedge funds under cost pressure from brokers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... reducing repo financing and overall leverage. Fund managers using strategies such as distressed credit, fixed income and global macro - which can be balance-sheet intensive from the prime brokers' perspective - have been among those who have experienced ...

Sunsuper hires AustralianSuper portfolio construction manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... He comes to the superannuation and retirement business from AustralianSuper, where he was most recently senior analyst - macro and portfolio construction. He has held that position since 2009. Prior to joining AustralianSuper, Tse was a research fellow ...

Pepared for "lift-off" watch out for "ceasing"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
'Twas the month before lift-off, when all through Wall Street not a creature was stirring, they do not weep." My apologies to Clement Clarke Moore for butchering his immortal poem but I find his words fitting - with a few adjustments - during this time ...