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Market cap funds disappoint investors: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... stock price is significantly decoupled from the fundamental attributes of the underlying company, he said, noting the tech bubble as one potential cause. "This is coupled with a tendency for people to overestimate their own ability to predict which stock ...

Are ETFs really the next smartphones?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... income ETFs will soon look more and more like traditional funds - something which up until now has only been a thought bubble. It has similarities to how smartphones have become multi-dimensional in their use. His example was the JPMorgan USD Ultra-Short ...

Chief economist update: Keep one eye open on the housing market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... (June 2017) while those for owner-occupiers eased to 7.5% from 8.1% (February 2018). So far so good, the housing market bubble is deflating in an orderly fashion. But the RBA should be alert that this doesn't build momentum and render its optimistic ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... sell orders and according to Bloomberg, "Individuals and day traders make up about 80% of the trading volume. Fueling the bubble and collapse in China's equities three years ago were millions of new investors, some of whom had never attended or graduated ...

ETFs a winner in February market slump: Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... growth of indexing, and dispersion among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant, except for the tech bubble and the global financial crisis," Vanguard said. Vanguard has a 28.5% slice of Australia's $30 billion pool of ETF assets. ...

Don't blame ETFs: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... seemingly random pattern and dispersion among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant except for the tech bubble and the global financial crisis." According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), whatever the catalyst for ...

Bitcoin bubble will burst in 2018: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
The latest Financial Standard spot poll result sees an end to the bitcoin bubble in 2018. About 40% of respondents are betting the days of the bitcoin phenomenon are numbered, while 29% predict Australia will lift interest rates by 25 percentage points. ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... worry. The potential for a housing market crash is also front of mind for many Australians, with pockets showing signs of a bubble. "Oversupply of apartments, regulatory restrictions on lending for investment property, capital controls in China and an ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... of profits, is 32.4; it has been higher only in September 1929 (just before the Wall Street crash) and during the dotcom bubble." But if investors are hearing these alarm bells, they don't appear to be listening. The VIX index - the fear gauge - continues ...

SSGA dismisses ETF bubble concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
State Street Global Advisors US head of capital markets David LaValle believes the concerns regarding ETFs causing valuation distortions in equity markets are founded in some fundamental misunderstandings about these investment vehicles. Speaking as ...