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Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... said. "You can't make a judgment call on the value of an asset without thinking about the future direction of interest rates. We are in the most extraordinary [environment], certainly in our lifetimes; interest rates are at their all time, historically ...

Chief economist update: A crisis of supply, demand and confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... governors of the G7 to assure us, mere mortals, of a concerted response. Several central banks have already cut interest rates led by the Reserve Bank of Australia and underscored by the US Federal Reserve's inter-meeting 50 basis point rate reduction ...

Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... undertake. However, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the US Federal Reserve's (Fed) decision to cut interest rates on the same day suggests that a coordinated response is underway. The RBA cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a ...

Allianz Retire+ moves to increase retiree confidence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... returns across a number of years. It then projects the variations, and takes into account correlations between interest rates, inflation, property prices and share prices. Advisers can model a large number of possible strategies, instead of just one ...

ETF popularity soars 52%

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... AUD indexes returned 7.26% and 7.19%, respectively, in 2019," Zaychuk said. "With global central banks keeping interest rates low in conjunction with the promise of lower fees for passive vehicles, demand for fixed interest ETFs could persist." There ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 solves overtourism in Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... there's little scope to do more. Besides, the problem caused by the coronavirus is a supply-side problem. Lower interest rates stoke demand but would do little to boost supply - demand could rise but there'll be less factories operating, less ...

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... around the world have already - Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia - or are prepared (markets expect the Fed cut interest rates by at least once this year) and governments stand ready to employ fiscal policies - Chinese President Xi has already pledged ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... level since the GFC - as markets raised their bets that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would "need" to cut interest rates again soon... very soon, for this, Virginia, is as good as it gets. The other stats in the report showed that the unemployment ...

Chief economist update: Working nine to five, barely getting by

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... among households - prompting them to save even more and spend less, least of all thinking of borrowing even at zero interest rates. It's now up to the myopic duo of Scott and Josh to take up the RBA's offer to borrow - given very low interest ...

Chief economist update: Japan fails to learn from history (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... government debt-to-GDP ratio even higher (now at 238% of GDP) Worse, the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) scope to lower interest rates has become limited or is no more. The BOJ discount rate was around 0.5% before the consumption tax was lifted from 3% to ...