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'Unretiring' a global trend: T. Rowe Price

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... and solutions that can build financial security, confidence, and optimism for the future." The survey found economic pessimism was highest in Japan and Canada, where 62% and 56% of respondents, respectively, foresee a recession. In contrast, those in ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... explained. "We do observe all the political tensions and macroeconomic developments, but only to get a gauge for optimism or pessimism in the markets. "Investors should start with their goals, giving them an idea from the supply driven perspective and ...

Zenith increases defensive investment as recession risk looms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2024
... on those outcomes. "Global stock markets have experienced rapid mood swings recently, flipping between optimism and pessimism, highlighting the fickle nature of sentiment," Hennessy said. "Headlines have attributed this volatility to various factors ...

Market pessimism over Insignia 'overblown'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024
Morningstar equity analyst Shaun Ler believes that the market is pessimistic over Insignia Financial and is downplaying its ability to stabilise its earnings. "Investors appear to be deterred by margin compression, sluggish flows, restructuring challenges ...

Price dislocations pave way for active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... around 2016 and through to 2018, an era marked by Brexit, US-China trade war tensions and underscored by sentiments of pessimism. Liu saw that equity markets at the time comparatively didn't experience as much dislocation but did exhibit crowding of ...

Small cap investors told to 'stop whinging'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... good progress was not reflected in share prices. "Overall, the market mood for small caps has changed from outright pessimism to selective optimism," Johnson said. "The opportunity for share price appreciation is significant for those companies that ...

Global dividends reached record high in 2023

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
... forecasts dividends of US$1.72 trillion this year - up 3.9% on a headline basis, equivalent to underlying growth of 5%. "Pessimism over the global economy proved ill-founded in 2023 and although the outlook is uncertain, dividends are well supported," ...

Cost-of-living crisis puts young members at risk: Rest

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2023
... members are disproportionately facing high levels of stress, deteriorating mental and physical health, and heightened pessimism due to cost-of-living pressures. Additionally, most young Rest members harbour retirement concerns about having sufficient ...

73% of chief executives predict global economic decline: PwC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023
... "A volatile economy, decades-high inflation, and geopolitical conflict have contributed to a level of chief executive pessimism not seen in over a decade." "Chief executives globally are consequently re-evaluating their operating models and cutting costs ...

US recession probability reaches 75% - is Australia at risk?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
... push some highly leveraged economies into financial distress, particularly those with USD denominated debt. Albeit some pessimism, Saxena affirmed that Australia's economy will remain resilient, even if the US recession leads the country back towards ...
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