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Japanese history lesson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... don't you think? Perhaps the phrase "bumping along the bottom" originated from this Japanese stock market experience. Low interest rates and plenty and readily obtainable credit fuelled the bubble in Japan's equity and property markets 20 years ago. ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... expansion. However, financial markets are yet to be fully convinced. Some use the "this time it's different" argument that interest rates are kept low because of the financial crisis and not because of a normal recession. But normal or not, a recession ...

... and transparency strategy to benefit Aussie funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... funds, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Local super funds meanwhile are watching CalPERS' progress with interest, with some stating that tougher disclosure regimes should be on trustees' radar if their funds deal with placement agents. ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... when the fiscal and monetary stimuli will be withdrawn. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has already started to guide interest rates higher and lifted its bank's required reserves. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has already done a hat trick on ...

Johnson Report maps out new world order

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... offshore assets. The Forum has also recommended that the government can improve Australia's access to offshore funding and interest rates by making changes to withholding tax on foreign-raised funding. Meanwhile, John O'Shaughnessy, deputy chief executive ...

AUSCOAL Super adds another cash manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
AUSCOAL Super has given a fixed interest mandate to Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) to invest funds in high-rated and secure cash investments. An AUSCOAL Super statement said the investment mandate is designed to make its cash ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... budget deficit and repay the national debt. Mortgaged future paid! Ahh...but now there's a new scare -- pain from rising interest rates. The RBA had had already raised the official cash rate - now at 3.75 per cent -- by 25 bps each in October, November ...

ASIC bans planner pushing dodgy docos

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
A financial adviser who gave his clients false disclosure documents was slapped with a five-year ban from providing financial services. ASIC has banned Joshua David Fuoco of Prahran, Victoria from providing financial services after the regulator's investigation ...

AUI hires capital markets analyst

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... manager, Osvaldo Acosta, to a new role of capital markets analyst. Acosta was responsible for managing funding, liquidity, interest rates and foreign exchange risk in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and US at Westfield Group. Prior to that role, he worked ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... is targeting 10 per cent growth for 2010. And what Beijing wants, Beijing gets. Ditto with fears about rising Chinese interest rates. Taken from a broader perspective, the recent increase in 3-month and 1-year China Treasury bills is puny. Chinese 3-month ...