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Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Brisbane on 10 August 2000, and headed, "A Medium-term Perspective on Monetary Policy" - it would and should cut interest rates and soon. For not only does "the economy wants to grow faster than it currently is," it's slowing (from 3.1% in the year ...

HNWs to embrace alternatives in 2019: Fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... years from a domestic listed market and real estate bias, with Australian shares and property benefiting from low interest rates. Spire Capital said a convergence of factors will continue to challenge that strategy and domestic returns in general going ...

Robo-adviser launches high interest savings solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... high-interest cash exchange-traded fund. Stockspot is offering Stockspot Savings, giving clients access to competitive interest rates and leveraging the BetaShares High Interest Cash ETF. The ETF is currently offering 2.02%. The savings account offers ...

Industry Super Australia forecasts a rate cut

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... it will be up to chief investment officers on how they shift their asset allocations to respond to a change in interest rates. Last week, AMP Capital's Shane Oliver said the RBA could cut to 1% by the end of the year with the first cut coming sooner ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy now, Australian property will be cheaper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... mid-2018, if memory serves me right) on this space, challenging the RBA's forward guidance that its next move on interest rates would likely be up than down - can't blame consensus for predicting the same, it came straight from the horse's ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... challenges just as the Fed. In the minutes of its 12-13 December 2018 Governing Council meeting, the ECB confirmed that, interest rates would remain at present levels "for as long as necessary to ensure the continued sustained convergence of inflation ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... could afford to be patient about further policy firming." How patient? Fed funds futures trading shows that US interest rates would remain unchanged through to the end of 2019 - with a small chance that the Fed could CUT rates by 25 bps this year or ...

CFS tops up Morgan Stanley mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... aims to generate higher and consistent returns over a 3 to 5 years time horizon and to manage the risks of higher interest rates. The Colonial First State lifestage employer super is the fifth-best performing in its cohort, delivering 6.9% p.a. over ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... 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 borne out of the not-so-good tidings for the domestic economy. As ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... positive returns, he said. "Two of the biggest risks to my overall theme are the ongoing trade wars and increasing interest rates," Sagun added. "Resolution, which we're seeing nascent stages of with a revised NAFTA and a truce between the US and ...