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Super funds react to market sell off

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... it's a natural human response to panic, but if you switch your money to 'safer' asset classes such as cash and bonds, you risk missing out on benefitting from the recovery in share prices," Fahy said. "The tail end of the GFC, when the ASX ...

Retirement planning gets a recession check

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... the yields of portfolios from all their assets as they prepare for the possibility of a downturn, including from shares, bonds, property and cash. "Even if there is not capital growth over the next year, you could still have the yield," Tim says. He ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... GDP and increase the government debt that stood at 132% of GDP at the end of 2017. The risk premium demanded on Italian bonds - as measured by the 10-year bond yield differential between Italy and Germany - has doubled to 3.2% from 1.6% at the start ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... unchanged at 2.2% in the year to September, inflation expectations - based on the yield differential between 10-year nominal US bonds and the 10-year TIPS is at 1.95% (a smidgen off the Fed's 2% target). Speaking of which, consensus expectations ...

Colonial First State to cut tobacco by 2020

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... confident that it will meet the 2020 deadline. We are mandating that our fund managers sell out of their tobacco stocks and bonds over 2019, and will be prohibiting them from investing in tobacco producers in the future," a spokesperson for CFS said. ...

Chief economist update: Blame and trim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... expectations beget higher actual inflation. US inflation expectations - as measured by the yield differential between nominal US bonds and TIPs - haven't risen sharply. The differential on the 5-year's currently at 2.1% from 1.9% at the start ...

Chief economist update: It wasn't me, it's the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... expectations beget higher actual inflation. US inflation expectations - as measured by the yield differential between nominal US bonds and TIPs - haven't risen sharply. The differential on the 5-year's currently at 2.1% from 1.9% at the start ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street has fallen, prepare to be greedy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... all the talk over surging US inflation, inflation expectations - as measured by the yield differential between nominal US bonds and TIPs - haven't risen sharply. The differential on the 5-year's currently at 2.1% from 1.9% at the start of 2018 ...

Chief economist update: That other Fed policy towards normalcy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... high and volatile inflation." Read: strong growth with stable and low inflation. But with the yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds surging by 12 bps to 3.18% - the highest rate since mid-2011 - overnight, the bond market doesn't seem to be completely ...

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... period ending 30 June 2018, almost 90% of international equity funds and more than 70% of Australian equity, Australian bonds and A-REIT funds underperformed their respective benchmarks on an absolute basis. The exception was Australian mid and small ...