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An institutional approach to retirement advice

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... institutions have projected liabilities and understand key liability sensitivities such as inflation, longevity, interest rates and other economic drivers. Individual investors, meanwhile, are typically focus on outperforming benchmarks with "no linkage ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... of Bank of Canada (BOC) governor Stephen Poloz that helped justify the Canadian central bank's decision to lift interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.75% on 12 July - making it the first developed country central bank to follow the Fed into policy normalisation. ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... future deviations from target." Fair enough. Hopefully the BOC doesn't repeat the events of 2010 when it raised interest rates when it raised interest rates by 25 bps each in June, July and September of that year from 0.25% to 1%. After a lag, headline ...

MetLife restructures US and UK operations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... while its wealth management products deliver good outcomes to customers, the ongoing challenge of long-term low interest rates has made it difficult to deliver value for MetLife since launching in 2007. "After thorough analysis, we have decided to focus ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... follow its bigger overseas peers into a more hawkish leaning. Everybody got it right on the first - the RBA kept interest rates on hold - but missed on the second as it maintained a neutral stance. And for good reasons. It remains optimistic over the ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... of decline. Despite APRA's tighter rules on property lending and banks and lending agencies' implementing higher interest rates (irrespective of the RBA's "no change decisions" since November and December last year), the love affair with property continues. ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... valuations based on traditional metrics like P/E ratios but qualified that: "those ratios ought to depend on long-term interest rates." Perhaps, but while the yield on US 10-year bonds have risen to 2.27% overnight, they're still lower than the 2.44% ...

Zagga pitches alternative asset class

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... the opportunity to make a fractional or fully funded loan. The borrower's credit score will also determine the interest rates for each loan. Backed by an Australian Financial Services Licence and an Australian Credit Licence, Zagga hopes to differentiate ...

Reflation narrative lacks substance: MFS

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
The growing consensus that the global economy is tilting back towards higher interest rates ignores persistent macroeconomic headwinds, according to MFS Investment Management chief investment officer, global fixed income Bill Adams. Speaking to Financial ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... ratios, but I wouldn't try to comment on appropriate valuations, and those ratios ought to depend on long-term interest rates." Factset data shows that the S&P 500 is currently trading at a forward P/E of 17.7 times earnings - above its five-year (13.7x) ...