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Budget surplus unlikely as economy stalls: Fitch

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
Economic slowdown and waning tax revenue is set to delay the Federal Government's 2019/20 financial year surplus, according to market analysts at Fitch Solutions. In December 2018, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann announced ...

VanEck drops fees on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
Australia's first China A-shares ETF has knocked 12bps off its annual management fees, after a decision taken by the board in the United States. The VanEck Vectors ChinaAMC CSI 300 ETF (ASX: CETF) will now charge 0.60% instead of the 0.72%. The ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Our resident chief economist explains why the continued drop in property prices could force the RBA to defy consensus and cut rates. First, some global context. US Federal Reserve has hinted that it will be more dovish with regards to monetary policy ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... rates," Sagun added. "Resolution, which we're seeing nascent stages of with a revised NAFTA and a truce between the US and China, would be the greatest catalyst for equity markets in 2019," he said.

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... on 1 March 2018 set the wheels of global economic activity and trade into reverse and with them, equity market fortunes. China, being Trump's central target, is worse hit as its economy and its stockmarket declined. So much so, the People's Bank ...

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 ...