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DomaCom, DFS establish $4.1m sub-fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... investments within their client portfolios," Romic said. "With increasing market volatility expected within a persistently low yield environment, we wish to take advantage of the prevailing risk premiums whilst they continue to present." DFS is set to ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... settings will remain unchanged - policy rate unchanged at -0.1%; the target for 10-year Japanese government bond (JGBs) yield at around zero; and, bond purchases would be maintained at an annual pace of ¥80 trillion - although the financial and economic ...

Retirement planning gets a recession check

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... 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 thinks bank-heavy ASX stocks as well as US equities are both risky. But blue-chip investments are the best bet ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... 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 of 2018. So far, Quitaly speculations ...

The rise of challenger banks in Australia: SIBOS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Challenger banks :86400, volt and xinja mount plans to disrupt the banking oligopoly in Australia. Speaking at the SIBOS Conference held in Sydney this week, senior heads at the three challenger banks spoke about how changing customer needs, fintech ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... inflation expectations. Core CPI inflation was 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). ...

Two new ETFs on the block

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... shares ex Australia. The ETF's index is the Nasdaq Global Income Leaders Index which has delivered a trailing dividend yield of 4.5% p.a. in the twelve months ending September 30. The index's 10-year compound return is 10.8% p.a. The ETF will ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
It would be the winter of Australia's agriculture sector if Rabobank's 'Winter Crop Production Outlook' report is any guide. The specialist agribusiness bank predicts that the country's national harvest would drop by 23% in the 2018/19 ...

Billionaire investor says markets in late cycle but anything possible

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Oaktree Capital Management cofounder Howard Marks says the current bull market is in a late stage but it could still go "up, sideways or down." Marks's firm has more than US$120 billion in assets under management. He addressed a media briefing in ...

Investors unfazed by market volatility: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
Recent share market turbulence is not spooking investors as the majority are adamant about holding onto their equity portfolio, Financial Standard's spot poll shows. Most readers (61%) said volatility raging in global and local share markets won't ...