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Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide on would be null and void should US President Donald Trump make good on his 25/10 tariff threat (25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium) this week and there's certain retaliation from trading ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... and aluminium spirals into a world war on trade, it would be a justifiable reason of concern for Wall Street. Download The Good Economics Guide: Making sense of key economic data Already, America's major trading "partners" are fighting back: "Should ...

Chief economist update: Australia low on credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... clear slowing and far below the double-digit rates recorded in the years before the global financial crisis. Download The Good Economics Guide: Making sense of key economic data Housing credit slowed to a year-on-year rate of 6.2% in January from 6.2% ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... stabilise around the FOMC's 2% objective over the medium term. Wages should increase at a faster pace as well." Download The Good Economics Guide: Making sense of key economic data Noticed anything new? Same here. For Powell's statement hardly differed ...

Financial Standard launches Good Investment Guide, Investment Leadership Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
Financial Standard this week released the first edition of 'The Good Investment Guide - Managed Funds Edition', an educational investment handbook aimed at self-directed investors and finance professionals. The guide features a primer on the managed ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... the upward pressure on inflation that would ultimately result in lower bond yields and a go-slow Fed. A case of bad news is good again? How else can one explain Wall Street's celebration of rising inflation and weakening consumer spending - worse than ...

Financial Standard launches the Investment Leadership Awards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... Standard out on Friday, 15 December, and in the daily newsletter. Award recipients will also be featured in The Good Investment Guide - the Managed Funds edition, available in newsagents and bookstores in March 2018. The Financial Standard Investment ...

Robo-advice raises alarm: ARRIA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... Real Return Investment Advisers general manager Rebecca Jacques. "If you actually look at what robo is doing, it's a very good way of selling passive index funds at a low cost," Jacques says. She told a recent Calastone forum that she put a few global ...

FS Live Blog: 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... financially. Meanwhile, Dr. Adam Tucker from the Beddoes Institute explains the new advice framework. #AFAau October 12, 8.50am - Good morning from the Gold Coast! Our live blog is back for Day Two. AFA to reveal findings of a new advice study in the ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, pulled back by 4.3 percentage points to 30.0%." Good or bad, the survey also found that, "President Donald Trump is having a big influence on many investors' attitudes".