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SMSFs need more investment diversity: FinaMetrica

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... That's because a falling Australian dollar boosts returns for international investors when assets are converted into local currency." Cash investments now represent 27% of SMSF assets and Resnik added "many SMSFs look to be in need of good investment ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... weighed on market sentiment." said Myrto Sokou, senior research analyst at Sucden Financial Research. The European single currency meanwhile firmed to $US1.0971 from $US1.0947 late in New York on Thursday. While Greece was not officially on the agenda ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... unemployment, then it would have to respond and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency... it's important that the central bank be allowed to use interest rates and monetary policy to achieve its macroeconomic ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... stocks have dipped, following leading euro zone equity markets lower on worries about a potential Greek exit from the currency bloc. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 36.87 points (0.20 per cent) to 18,126.12 at the closing bell on Thursday. The ...

Strong USD reflects (deflects) lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... time wink, winks and nudge, nudges of a lift-off re-emerges into the fore. And as I've typed many, many times, a strong currency is a 'de facto' interest rate hike. It slows the economy by making exports less competitive and imports cheaper and it also ...

ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... Renminbi ETF (ZCNH), exposed to an ANZ account holding offshore Renminbi; and the Physical US Dollar ETF (ZUSD), holding US currency. Laidler said that this is the right moment for ANZ to enter the ETF market, as the sector was up 62% last year in Australia ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... doesn't generate economic activity. The only thing you really see when they create all this liquidity is that it causes the currency to weaken," Tinker said, adding that this is creating "some long term problems." In Japan, however, "QE under Abenomics ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... predicting growth of just 2.6% this year and 2.8% the next - while at the same time expecting the economy of the single currency region to expand by 1.5% in 2015 and 1.9% in 2016. The euro's return to weakness is positive for the euro area economy but ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... "Weakness in the euro this afternoon is probably also helping to lift stocks in Europe, with exporters benefiting from weaker currency making them more competitive. This is likely to play a big role in their recovery this year," he added. The European ...

Falling AUD offsets dividend growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... fifths of the region's total payout, but the increase was of only 1.1% to 21.5% underlying growth after a $1.5 billion currency loss was taken into account. However, companies such as Amcor, Woodside Petroleum, BHP and Transurban raised dividends enough ...