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VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... chief investment officer Oscar Fabian said. "However uncertainty surrounds the timing and extent of these changes to monetary policy." He noted that Australian loans portfolios "significantly reduce interest rate duration risk (i.e. the negative impact ...

Mercer handed fine for unlicensed advice in Singapore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has fined Mercer Singapore S$15,000 ($15,100) for contraventions of the Financial Advisers Act. On 18 August, Mercer Singapore accepted composition amounts of $10,000 for contravention of section 23B(3) of the FAA ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... more stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy easing - lowered interest rate and RRR - with expansionary fiscal policies. According to Xinhua News Agency - central ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... responsibility. "Generally financial services firms don't get what makes people happy. They try to simplify it down into a monetary equation. We will pay people fairly but we'll never pay them outrageously. If I lose a few people over that then they ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... misalignments." "We will refrain from competitive devaluations, and resist all forms of protectionism." But the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had to name names, defending the yuan's recent depreciation (mandated as it was) as a natural consequence ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... And this is and what Gov Glenn had been talking about for a long while now. And this is that there are limits to what monetary policy could achieve - it's now pushing on a string -- and therefore... go Keynesian! Yes, that great guy, the British economist ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... executive David Neal said that during the year "we were very deliberately positioned to take advantage of the stimulus monetary policy in Europe and the United States." But with monetary policy set to tighten and investors expecting an increase in interest ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... price pressure. Its GDP has been remarkably flat over the next twenty years." However, the introduction of Abenomics and monetary easing has brought to Japan "something of a turnaround in the best managers of Japanese reflation. Normal GDP has started ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... China's recent priming of the pump isn't enough to get to PM Li's 7.0% target. But me says, Rome wasn't built in a day - monetary policy operates with a lag, give the other four rate cuts implemented since November last year (and the RRR reductions) ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... fall in commodity prices. We can blame it on the Fed and the rolling uncertainty over the timing and trajectory of its monetary policy. We can blame Japan and Europe for their "beggar thy neighbour" policies by depreciating their currencies. We can blame ...