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Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... that while headlines are still littered with fears over slowing growth in China or a crash in its property market or a liquidity crunch or... all of the above, investors are voting with their wallets and buying (not selling) the dollar-A because they ...

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... as fixed income and alternatives lose out to cash - an asset class which is easy to understand and provides absolute liquidity, but will just about guarantee a loss when inflation is factored in. But trying to persuade these highly conservative investors ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... QE a-plentier. The European Central Bank's (ECB) policy action announced just last week would, undoubtedly, add more liquidity to the planet. And it's not finish yet... it'll be doing a QE soon. "The Governing Council decided to intensify preparatory ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... Suspension of bond market sterilisation. "In addition, we decided to suspend the weekly fine-tuning operation sterilising the liquidity injected under the Securities Markets Programme." European equity markets jumped with joy! The Stoxx-50 index closed ...

AusSuper grants London property mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... - sits well with our investment approach. "It has a record of strong returns over the long term, transparency, good liquidity and a positive overall economic outlook, among a range of attributes. In addition, TIAA Henderson Real Estate brings the right ...

ASIC reviews misleading promotion of hybrids

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... sophistication of financial markets. "The financialisation of markets - for example, through high frequency trading, dark liquidity and speculative trading - creates new risks in terms of ASIC's strategic objective of fair, orderly and transparent markets. ...

Jeremy Cooper: Rethinking retirement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... to draw down on it in retirement. Now, there are good aspects to that. It gives you lots of flexibility and emergency liquidity, and all the rest of it. But you can certainly over-consume, and it obviously doesn't deal with inflation risk or longevity ...

La Trobe registers for the Shanghai Free Trade Zone

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... integration is very important for Asia-Pacific financial markets in order to achieve greater economies of scale, depth in liquidity and ultimately better support the region's economic development plans by improving access to finance in each economy." ...

New infrastructure fund for SMSFs launches

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... class by aggregating selected funds with attractive, proven assets and offering access at low fees, with appropriate liquidity." Currently IPIF only invests in unlisted funds Hastings Utilities Trust of Australia (UTA) and Palisade Diversified Investment ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... least be preserved in the medium term under the next administration." "... it "reflects the country's strong external liquidity and international investment position, combined with an effective monetary policy framework relative to the country's income ...