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Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
The drop (big time) in US durable goods orders - a leading indicator of business investment -- in December is raising doubts over the durability of the economy's expansion. To be sure, most economists were already expecting orders to take a hit after ...

Impact investments the next wave for RI

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
Impact investments are seen as the next wave to flow from the global trend of purchasing alternative assets to help build responsible investment portfolios. In its 2016 Responsible Investment Outlook, AXA Investment Managers said impact investing will ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
When the going gets tough...... the tough promises to get going. For a change, a number of equity markets around the globe finished flashing green numbers last week. The All Ordinaries index, for one, closed 0.4% in the plus - pitiful you might say ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
By itself the latest update on US inflation shouldn't impede the Fed's path towards policy normalisation. The December numbers are neither here nor there - i.e., it justifies whatever the market's pre-conceived view - four 25 bps hike this year as indicated ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
Where have all the buyers gone? Two weeks into the new year and they're still MIA. Given recent events, they appear to be drowning - drowning in a sea of oil, that is....and there'll be more gushing out of the grounds soon, out of Iran as Friday's speculations ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
Happy New Year to all you gentle readers!... and it looks like we'd be needing more well-wishes of "A Happy and Prosperous New Year!" the way financial markets have panned out at the start of 2016. Equity markets around the globe dropped -- big time ...

Magellan prepping ASX-quoted version of infra fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Magellan Asset Management is replicating the structure of its innovative ASX-quoted managed fund for its global listed infrastructure fund. The move, expected to be completed in the first half of 2016, follows the success of the listed Magellan Global ...

AMP Capital to acquire Nordic infrastructure company

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
AMP Capital has partnered with Infracapital to take a 100% equity stake in Adven Group Oy. Adven is a provider of energy infrastructure for businesses in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Some of its services included district heat solutions, regulated gas ...

ETF businesses bullish on growth prospects

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Exchange traded fund (ETF) businesses expect to grow by nearly 18% per year for the next three to five years, according to EY's 2015 Global ETF Survey. Despite an unstable economic environment, more than 90% of those surveyed expect the industry to ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... longer flight." Read the full article here: http://www.economist.com/news/21684225-economys-reaction-feds-rate-rise-hard-predict-federal The Economist could have saved itself some work if it just looks at the US yield curve. The New York Federal Reserve ...