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Broker popularity on the rise: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... seen as the two biggest reasons for investing in property by those surveyed," the report reads. Concerns around a property bubble have led to 15% of investors shying away from plans, however the concept of 'rentvesting' has grown in popularity with 62% ...

Industry sentiment mixed: ETF spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
The industry is ambivalent about the role exchange-traded funds are playing in potentially distorting share prices and causing bubbles, according to Financial Standard's weekly poll. Twenty per cent of respondents strongly agreed the inflow to ETFs ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... rate hike - especially if it triggers expectations for more - could prompt a disorderly deleveraging of the household debt bubble and throw the RBA's optimistic outlook out the window. Then again, it's precisely the current environment of record low ...

To opt in or out of life insurance: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
There are mixed feelings about whether young superannuation fund members should opt in to life insurance, the latest Financial Standard poll reveals. Twenty-nine per cent of respondents disagree that young super fund members should have the choice to ...

Sole fund closed by Australian equities manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... very proud of our true to label delivery for our investors during difficult markets that included the GFC and the bond bubble. "We are very grateful for all the broad support we received from asset consultants, ratings agencies and retail and institutional ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... normalisation. But the same softly-softly approach is blowing more hot air into asset markets (we - and the Fed - won't know it's a bubble until it's burst). Irrational exuberance redux? Perhaps. But as John Maynard Keynes stated many, many years ago ...

Fund manager sells all shares ahead of crash

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... option. Parker's decision was based on what he sees as an impending correction for the Australian east coast property market bubble, overvalued Australian equity markets, Chinese property and debt issues later in 2017 and "oversized" geopolitical risks. ...

Fearless forecasting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... 2017 and the Dow still has about 15,000 points to climb to get there. Who knows what would have happened if the dotcom bubble didn't intervene, or September 11, or the Global Financial Crisis? But that's just it, economies don't operate in a vacuum and ...

China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
Whether it's the official tally or the private sector one, the latest purchasing managers' surveys point to slowing expansion in China's manufacturing sector and suggesting a weak start to the second quarter. China's official National Bureau of Statistics ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... gains in house prices. Like Australia, Chinese authorities have been taking steps to let the air out of the property market bubble before it burst and create financial instability. The latest house price stats show that the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) ...