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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... production targets for 2015. Overall, Mr Spooner said investor focus is going to be on individual company results rather than the macro market scene. Seven West Media gained four cents to $1.46 despite releasing a dismal half year result. The media group ...

Retail investor confidence in domestic market low

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... and confidence in the outlook for domestic equities, which was high. Retail investors appear to be ignoring some important macro themes as they set investment intentions, and in our view the data points to an ongoing lack of meaningful diversification ...

Standard Life global bond fund gets recommended rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... across a wide range of fixed income assets, including credit, government bonds and currencies. "We combine a broad range of macro and tactical positions to create a portfolio of strategies that complement each other, chosen specifically with the goal ...

Instos turn increasingly to real assets

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
Institutional investors are increasingly turning to real assets to increase investment returns and manage macro-environment risks, but would rethink allocations if interest rates rose significantly, according to a new survey from BlackRock. The survey ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... (1978-79) sent crude skyrocketing from around US$16.00 to US$40.00 a barrel with almost similar negative consequences to the macro economy. What happened then? What happened is escalating oil prices cured escalating oil prices. The Federal Reserve Bank ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... after increasing by 4.6% in the year to October that indicates weakening consumption in the Middle Kingdom. The current macro backdrop is quite concerning if left to fester and pester. But this is exactly the point, monetary authorities in China, Japan ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
"Maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe never I'm confessing That I'm guessing all the time." Edna Savage's immortal 1959 classic "Maybe This Year" provides an apt background song heading into last night's European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council ...

Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... Life Investments' house view and generate research ideas for the wider business. The appointments bring the multi-asset and macro team up to a total of 49 staff. Faulkner-MacDonagh will be responsible for analysing primary drivers across all major asset ...

Vanguard appoints APAC senior economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... Davis, which includes 50 members globally and seven in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining Vanguard, Wang worked on macro research and strategic development at a sovereign wealth fund based in Asia. Before that she worked an economist and head ...

Franklin Templeton beefs up fixed income team

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
Franklin Templeton has grown the size of its fixed income team as it looks to develop a range of domestic absolute return fixed income products for the Australian market. Jennifer Wee has joined as research analyst, fixed income and will have responsibility ...