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Chief economist update: Bring on Aussie dollar depreciation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
"Capital Economics sees the local currency falling to US60c this year and hovering there through 2020; it previously forecast it at US65c for 2019 and US70c for 2020." (Australian Financial Review) That's a whopping 15%-16% drop from A$/US$ exchange ...

Ethical investments top mandate appointments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... this is partly to European fund managers including ESG in the segment. The data suggests responsible investment is here to stay, building on analysis by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia that showed ethical investing quadrupled in the ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
About this time last year, financial markets were awash with speculation the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would follow the Fed's lead and start implementing a monetary policy exit strategy. Speculations started to gain prominence as early as January 2018 ...

BlackRock to drop 500 staff

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... "Everything we are doing reflects our focus on the long term. The uncertainty around us makes it more important than ever that we stay ahead of changes in the market and focus on delivering for our clients," Kapito said. "We have always differentiated ...

Specialist SMSF advisers need only apply

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... to being small," the report reads. "While some SMSFs expand quickly and perform better, others appear to start small and stay small." According to the report, it was estimated in 2016 that 380,000 members are in smaller SMSFs that have been established ...

Private markets attractive for global institutions: BlackRock

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... consideration for institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Conway said it was important BlackRock's clients continued to stay invested, and noted alpha-seeking strategies made "particular sense" in the current climate. "We're seeing clients becoming ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
UniSuper chief investment officer John Pearce spoke to Financial Standard earlier this month about market opportunities, building the fund's in-house investment team and CIPRs. Pearce said the fund doesn't particularly see a need to pull back ...

Shareholders put NAB board in the hot seat

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
NAB executives were slammed for destroying shareholder value and for losing its lead as Australia's biggest bank by market capitalisation at its annual general meeting in Melbourne this morning. One shareholder during the question and answer session ...

ANZ Australia head to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
ANZ's group executive for Australia is stepping down and taking an extended career break to spend time with family. Fred Ohlsson has announced he will be returning to his native Sweden following 17 years' at the bank. Current group executive, business ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... 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% on 1 January 2019 ...