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Chief economist update: Eurozone contraction heads from mild to severe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... Moreover, just as the Ricardian equivalence theorem dictates, stimulating an economy through government spending (financed by debt) would fail to boost domestic demand as households and businesses restrain spending on expectations of higher taxes in ...

US regulator settles with Ares

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... penalty. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleges that in 2016 Ares invested several hundred million dollars in debt and equity of a publically listed company, and as a part of the investment appointed a senior employee to its board, who ...

Receivers appointed to Mayfair 101 entity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... said. The IPO Wealth Fund was advertised by Mayfair 101 as being appropriate for high net worth investors. It is primarily a debt fund that lends money to IPO Wealth Holdings trading as Mayfair 101 Holdings. On 7 April 2020 Vasco froze redemptions for ...

The future is fast arriving: BlackRock

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... said. "Central banks could be more willing to tolerate inflation overshoots despite the upward pressure on rates from high debt levels, as monetary-fiscal policy coordination has become key." The acceleration of deglobalisation could also add to the ...

Super not sacred: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... has warned the superannuation industry to prepare for the government using the system as a means of repaying its stimulus debt, saying super won't be as sacred as it has been in the past. Rice has warned the superannuation industry to prepare to become ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... government bonds to infrastructure, credit and property in the belief these assets would act as defensive proxies for low yielding debt instruments." When markets started to crash at the end of February and during March, investment managers would have ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... books. And it has increasingly nabbed the 17-strong team's focus away from fixed income, which is a shrinking part of IFM's debt portfolio and has become increasingly opportunistic. "We are more likely to provide private placement financing or bank lending ...

Rich Dad feels for financial advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Author of ubiquitous personal finance self-help book Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki says he feels for financial advisers amid the COVID-19 pandemic - though he won't be taking their advice. "They have a tough job, a very tough job," Kiyosaki ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... and labour market has not 'snapped back' strongly enough by then." And in a country with highly leveraged household debt - these payments ending could see property prices plunge in a downward spiral. "Our current expectation is that house prices ...

US pension funds approach point of no return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... city of Chicago which was junk rated by Moody's before the pandemic hit, already had about US$240 billion in pension debt and has 53% of its revenues directly exposed to COVID-19. According to a recent report from Pew Charitable Trusts, one in five ...