Weekly market update – week ending 23 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week With central bank announcements from the Bank of Japan and the Fed out of the way and benign, share markets rallied

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26 Sep 2016

Bank of Japan to target yield curve and a period of inflation above 2%

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After much anticipation the Bank of Japan has announced its response to it “comprehensive assessment” of its monetary easing program. A key findings of the comprehensive assessment was that its

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23 Sep 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 16 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While the US share market recovered some of its loss from the previous week as fears of an imminent Fed rate

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19 Sep 2016

Australian jobs down (a bit), but full time jobs up and unemployment down too

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Employment fell by 3,900 in August, which was well below market expectations for a 15,000 gain but did follow stronger than expected growth of 26,000 in July. Annual jobs growth

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16 Sep 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 9 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets were mostly up over the last week but Australian shares fell slightly. Mixed US data, the ongoing soap

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12 Sep 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 2 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Japanese shares rose solidly over the last week helped by talk of more monetary easing and a fall in the

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05 Sep 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 26 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Eurozone shares rose 1.2% over the last week US shares fell 0.7%, Australian shares lost 0.2%, Japanese shares fell 1.1%

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29 Aug 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 19 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week with European, Japanese and Australian shares down but US and Chinese shares up. Bond

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22 Aug 2016

The constrained medium term return outlook

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Key points Low and falling investment yields from most major asset classes point to a constrained medium term return outlook. For a diversified mix of assets, this has now fallen

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17 Aug 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 12 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares moved higher again over the last week with US shares hitting new record highs, Eurozone shares hitting their highest since

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15 Aug 2016