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Mandate tide turns towards global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... invested in Australian equities. Alternatives, another rising trend, accounted for about 22% of new mandates. This represents a sharp change compared to previous years. New institutional money invested in Australian equities has been consistently falling ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The US Federal Reserve's decision to postpone the rate rise is keeping the world on hold. With volatility set to increase ahead of the rate hike, Laura Millan looks at the global investment opportunities. Just when everyone thought it would happen ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... strengthening US dollar and/or due to the prospect of US higher interest rates killed off once profitable carry trades. The sharp falls in commodity prices is borne of this. The US dollar is inversely correlated with commodity prices. The main reason ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
The recent plunge in local and global stock markets saw super fund returns dip but performance is still solid over the longer term. According to figures from Rainmaker, the SelectingSuper workplace default option MySuper Index fell sharply during August ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... Ireland a day after the Fed's 17 September no lift-offA (yet) announcement. "With subdued world growth and prices, and a sharp appreciation of sterling whose effects in lowering imported prices have yet to fully pass through, I am not as confident as ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Western Asset Management chief investment officer Ken Leech believes the bond market will have reasonably low rates for longer than market participants thought at the beginning of 2015. Leech said the normalising of interest rates by the US Federal ...

FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... are looking at our overseas exposures and at the moment we have started to hedge them. We are also monitoring closely the sharp drop of the Australian dollar," Armitage says. The veterans of life stages For seven years now, BT Financial Group has split ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Another Monday, another sell, sell day. This time the media - social or otherwise - are calling the sharp drop in the Australian equities market yesterday a "Horror Monday". It wasn't as bloody as that "Bloody Monday", 24 August, when the benchmark ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... year-on-year, while exports were 5.5% lower." These suggest that both China's internal and external dynamics are shot. The sharp drop in imports validates slowing domestic demand in the Chinese economy. Expect further weakness in Beijing's foreign purchases ...