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CFS tops up Morgan Stanley mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... exposures should have greater exposures to corporate bonds, securitised assets and emerging market debt which offer higher yield and return but are generally less liquid and have higher correlations with equities," CFS said. Morgan Stanley's Total ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... on. What could be more mouth-watering for investors than cheaper equity market valuation and better returns (4.5% dividend yield)? But here's the rub. The prospect of steady interest rates as far as the eye can see (or in this case, till 2020) is ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... gains from domestic shares in 2019. "Despite this, they still believe in the income potential of Aussie shares, expecting a yield of 4.1% over the next 12 months," he said. Investors' concerns centred on the tension between the world's major ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... has slowed to 2.2% after peaking at 2.3% in July this year. And inflation expectations? They've dropped - based on the yield differential between nominal 10-year bonds and TIPS - to 1.8% currently from 2% at the start of 2018 and a high of 2.19% ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... - as demonstrated by a flattening slope between three and 10-year government bonds. This has resulted in Australia's yield curve flattening from 65 basis points into 50 basis points over the last year. The good news is Australia's curve is fairly ...

Chief economist update: Does the Fed lift or cut interest rates just for the heck of it?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... recent Fedspeak about the US central bank being data dependent? The recent data on inflation, inflation expectations and the yield curve says...so easy-ier. As an aside, for the life of me I still couldn't understand why the Fed's reveal about ...

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... share market prior to the change. "Unlike property, share investing is generally positively geared with the ASX dividend yield vplus franking credits about 5.5%, which is higher than most borrowing costs," Philpot said. "For long term investors, moving ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... for themselves: While the lead from the Markit PMI shows the US economy still up there in terms of economic expansion, the yield curve brings not so good tidings. Not surprisingly, commodity prices have been dropping. The Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... Dimon's comments that he saw a flat fourth-quarter trading environment. "The first inversion of any portion of the Treasury yield curve in more than a decade awoke the specter of a recession," he said. Sure, they all add up. But if (and whenever) ...

Will Aussie equities overcome 2019 challenges?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... asset class will deflect risks and a challenging policy environment to provide investors with a low beta source of "healthy" yield in 2019. T. Rowe Price head of Australian equities and portfolio manager Randal Jenneke is "cautiously optimistic" about ...