interest rates

Financial planning

Advisers should not be abandoning defensive assets

Interest rates may be low and dividend payments doubtful, but a Money Management Retirement Incomes webinar panel has agreed there is a continuing and necessary role for ...

Expert Analysis

The perils of (over) stretching for yield

Central banks are using unprecedented levels of stimulus to support the economy, writes Kerry Craig, leaving investors with expensive bond prices and record low interest ...

Funds management

Investors should look at fundamentals in EM debt

Fundamentals are returning to the forefront as a key performance driver in emerging markets debt, according to Eaton Vance’s new study. ...

Funds management

Stay in cash and risk assets

Investors should now focus on staying in cash, some risk assets, and staying active, after being used to a decade of low inflation and rates, according to Amundi....

Financial planning

RBA cuts rates to historic 0.25% low

The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut rates again from 0.5% to a historic low of 0.25% and announced a ‘comprehensive package’ to prop up the economy....

Policy & Regulation

Frydenberg signals changes to deeming rates

Tough times and lower interest rates have prompted the Government to put last year’s deeming rate changes under the microscope....

Expert Analysis

Another year of living dangerously?

Geopolitics will be an ongoing source of volatility for markets but there are opportunities for advisers to find assets that will generate investment returns that clients...

Expert Analysis

Are the RBA’s interest rate cuts doing more harm than good?

Anthony Doyle finds that lowering interest rates does not always increase spending on consumption....

Funds management

What two Aussie equity fund managers told Josh Frydenberg

The Government has been told by two veteran fund managers it needs to look beyond the use of monetary policy if it wants to appropriately stimulate the Australian economy...

Funds management

Trade war seen as ‘new normal’ for investors

Nearly half of investors do not expect the US/China trade war to be resolved, according to a global fund manager survey by Bank of America Merrill Lynch....

Funds management

Look to infrastructure to navigate ‘late cycle’ markets

Global markets are entering a ‘late cycle’ phase, as demonstrated by interest rate cuts, according to RARE Infrastructure....

Superannuation

Australia’s retirement system ranking slips

The country’s ranking in old-age dependency, interest rates, tax pressure, and government indebtedness all dropped in 2019, according to Natixis....

Financial planning

Investors show increased interest in cash plus strategies

With the cut in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of Australia, investors are looking to cash or enhanced cash funds in order to achieve better returns while maintaining...

Funds management

Will the rate cut benefit consumer spending-focused funds?

With the Reserve Bank’s June rate cuts intended in part to stimulate consumer spending, a dive into FE Analytics reveals which funds stand to gain the most from an uptick...

Financial planning

Slowing GDP growth a red flag to check super

Yesterday’s confirmation that Australia’s economy was at its weakest since the global financial crisis in 2009 should serve as a warning to the public to protect their lo...