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No inflation but no growth either: Janus Capital

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The great quantitative easing experiment has escaped the high levels of inflation that many experts predicted it would bring, but it has also failed to bring much growth, says Janus Capital chief investment officer of equities and asset allocation Enrique ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... of people have taken precautions, so we see it as a buying opportunity," he said. Worah argued that the ECB quantitative easing program will benefit "European peripheral bonds," mainly Spain and Italy. "A program of this magnitude likely would be centered ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... Kong and Singapore. Bracken attributed the change to the fact that those markets are starting to respond to quantitative easing initiatives implemented over the last few months: "We're seeing it in Europe, Japan and, oddly enough, in China. These markets ...

Fund manager insists active approach not broken

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... blamed the relatively poor performance of active managers in recent years on the market distorting impact of quantitative easing and says talented stock pickers will come good again soon. S&P Dow Jones recently published its semi-annual Index Versus ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... against the greenback, to $US1.0590 from $US1.0489 on Friday. LONDON - European stocks rallied on optimism over quantitative easing in the eurozone, with Frankfurt topping 12,000 points for the first time. Germany's leading stock market index smashed ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing programme today. Details about the ECB's first buys are still unavailable but Bloomberg reports that it started small and selective. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... buying 60 billion euros ($A84 billion) worth of bonds per month in the long-awaited purchase program, known as quantitative easing, aimed at warding off deflation and stimulating growth across the eurozone. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly fell, dragged ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... further tumble came after ECB chief Mario Draghi said the bank will start buying government debt in its new quantitative easing program on Monday. At closing, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index climbed 0.61 per cent to 6,961.14 points, as the Bank of ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... hereafter until September 2016. The European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled the details of its trillion euro quantitative easing programme last night. Special thanks to Bloomberg for saving me work and publishing the details in dot points (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-05/here-s-how-ecb-qe-will-work). ...