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By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 30 2015 Key points A perfect storm of factors led by China worries have caused turmoil in shares. Our view remains that what we have seen is likely to be a correction (albeit severe) rather than a new bear market. It’s too early to... Read more

Brad Matthews, the Hillross economist, has written an article on the recent falls in Global Markets. As I write markets in Australia have bucked the newspaper headlines this morning and are up nearly 2%. We are certainly in volatile times when good asset allocation is very important.

By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 29 2015 Key points Uncertainties regarding China, commodity prices, emerging countries and the Fed could see the correction in shares go further in the short term. A disappointing start to the Australian profit reporting season is also not helping Australian shares. However, this looks... Read more

By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 28 2015 Key points Over long periods of time shares and other growth assets deliver for investors via the power of compound interest. However, cyclical swings can frequently throw investors off and reacting to periods of poor returns by moving to cash only locks... Read more

By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 27 2015 Key Points As expected the RBA left interest rates on hold. While it’s a close call, chances are that the RBA will cut rates again before year end reflecting the poor business investment outlook, greater than expected weakness in commodity prices, the... Read more

A bias towards investing in local shares and property is common and understandable. Unfortunately for many Australian investors this means missing out on the potential rewards of international investments – healthy returns and risk reduction through diversification of their investments across asset classes. Each asset class usually exhibits different risk and returns to various market cycles and events. In turn... Read more

By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 24 2015 Key Points Just as the rise in Chinese shares had little economic impact it’s hard to see the pullback having a significant economic impact either. Chinese economic growth is likely to remain “around 7%” with monetary and fiscal easing helping. The volatility... Read more

By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 23 2015 Key Points The Greek No vote means more uncertainty ahead regarding Greece, with significantly heightened risk of aGreek exit from the Euro. The threat of a flow on to other Eurozone countries is likely to keep markets on edge in the short... Read more

If you’ve read the news, you would already be aware that Greece’s referendum result is causing much speculation on what comes next for Greece and the Eurozone. For our clients, we would like to reassure you that we are keeping abreast of the potential impact on global markets, with your investments top-of-mind. At this stage, we do not anticipate any... Read more

By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 22 2015 Key Points A “reform for funding” deal between Greece and its creditors looks likely and may now be agreed this week.  This would be positive for Eurozone assets. It would then have to pass various parliaments though. Alternatively if no deal is... Read more