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Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
History was made when North Korean supremo Kim Jung-un took one step south of the Korean DMZ (demilitarised zone) to shake hands with his southern counterpart, South Korea president Moon Jae-in. An epic in itself, it invalidates Rudyard Kipling's (re-phrased) ...

Instos chasing EM debt for value

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
Institutional investors are setting their sights on emerging market debt in an environment where equities and interest rates seem fully valued. Speaking to Financial Standard, Grant Samuel Funds Management chief executive Damien McIntyre said that interest ...

ING ramps up wholesale lending business

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
ING Australia increased its wholesale lending by 24% over the previous year, the bank's 2017 results show. Clients of ING's wholesale banking loans include the Sydney Metro Northwest, New Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Queensland's Clare Solar Farm. "We ...

Kapstream creates new fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
Kapstream Capital will soon launch its new investment strategy, including a second fund to sit alongside the fixed income manager's flagship Absolute Return Income Fund. Kapstream director of investment strategy James Bloom told Financial Standard the ...

ABDO unveils top investment strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... Pointing to a Credit Suisse global dividend comparison between 1900 to 2016, Campbell said Australia leads the pack on dividend yield. Australian companies paid an average dividend yield of 5.2% per annum and outpaced the world average of 4.1%. In terms ...

Placer Property launches new fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... office building in Melbourne which is leased to the University of Melbourne. The building offers a forecast distribution yield of 6.5% per annum. "The establishment of the fund is consistent with our objective to facilitate high quality investment opportunities ...

Housing affordability fuelling negative gearing backlash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... AIST said interviews conducted with negative gearers featured a near-uniform view that property is a lower risk, higher yield investment than superannuation. The survey shows how significant concern around housing affordability is, including to those ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... "hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see." The yen rose to its highest level since November 2016 and the yield on 10-year JGBs doubled (to 0.06% from 0.03%) in early March after financial markets interpreted BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's ...

Labor's imputation credit reform cops industry backlash

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... likely shift investment strategies and potentially higher risk asset allocation in the retirement phase. "Funds seeking yield to deliver retirement income, especially SMSFs which are paying income streams, would need to shift their asset allocation towards ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring ...