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Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... certain, the Fed's not blind to what's happening in the equity, currency, commodity and bond markets. The S&P 500 index is down 6.2% this year to date, dragging all others with it - the MSCI developed equity index is down 9% and the emerging ...

Chief economist update: Is there a bear in there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... up - but the Australian Financial Review (AFR) and Bloomberg's now talking about the grizzly. "The S&P 600 small cap index fell into a bear market after closing 20.1 per cent below its August 31 peak, falling 1.6 per cent on the day [14 December]," ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... since the third quarter of 2012 and marks the fourth straight quarter of easing growth. If the latest Ifo business climate index for Germany is any guide, this slowdown will persist into the fourth quarter of this year. The index declined to a four-month ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... liquidity providers otherwise known as authorised participants (AP) that deliver or receive a subset of bonds in the full index. Giordano says APs create liquidity by meeting supply and demand needs of investors who trade ETF units on an exchange, as ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... two years, optimism hits four-year low" And its key findings make for grim reading: Flash Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index at 52.7 (54.1 in September). 25-month low. Flash Eurozone Services PMI Activity Index at 53.3 (54.7 in September). 24-month ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... target). Speaking of which, consensus expectations on the Fed's preferred measure of inflation - the core PCE price index - is for an easing to 1.8% in the September quarter from 2.1% in the June quarter. These suggest that the Fed's previous ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... dollar this year to date and its foreign exchange reserves have dwindled by 2.4% over the same period. The Shanghai composite index is now in a bear market, down 22.9% since the start of 2018 (and that includes the 2.6% jump recorded by the index last ...

Aussies second-most optimistic about retirement: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... self-reported levels of happiness against how their country's retirement system fare on global rankings such as the Mercer Index and OECD. Research found a disparity between the two. Australia ranked three on OECD data, second on Mercer's score. ...

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... physically to Australia towards end of June, as former head Jon Howie moved to Hong Kong to head BlackRock's APAC equity index strategy. He has hired two staff since - one in Melbourne (taking the team there to two people) and another one in Sydney. ...

WTW launches ESG index strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... Towers Watson has developed a new strategy which integrates ESG factors in the investment process with the help of a major index provider. WTW teamed up with MSCI to establish the Adaptive Capped ESG Universal Index. The strategy offers equity investors ...