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Rising yields benefit active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... returns and protect their capital in ways not typically available to passive managers. The US Federal Reserve lifted interest rates twice in just three months to 1%, and hinted two more increases in 2017 and another three in 2018. In Australia, the market ...

Housing is cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... ANZ, CBA, NAB, WBC - say they would pass onto their depositors, which certainly could come in the form of higher interest rates for borrowers.

Global infrastructure need deepens profit opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... pays' assets come into their own. Such assets are usually correlated to GDP growth and are protected from rising interest rates, giving investors an inflation hedge." Shaw said recent history demonstrated that even though infrastructure underperforms ...

Major banks receive Budget shakeup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... institutions explain changes or proposed changes to residential mortgage pricing, including amendment of fees, charges, or interest rates. The levy will be calculated quarterly as 0.015% of an ADI's licensed entity liabilities as at each APRA mandated ...

China slowing to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... financial security. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) have also been working towards this goal by lifting short term interest rates - 7-day, 14-day and 28-day reverse repo rates lifted by 10 bps each last month -- and cracking down on shadow banking. ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index's latest report confirms whatever bias you have on the outlook for interest rates - up, down or unchanged. Those expecting the Reserve Bank of Australia to raise interest rates in the foreseeable future ...

Millennials' financial heartache drives P2P lending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... easy," RateSetter chief executive Daniel Foggo said. "They are starting their wealth accumulation at a time of low interest rates, economic volatility and very high property prices. They need to be smart with their money, and they know a low-interest ...

Labor renews calls for banking Royal Commission

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... their customers," one complaint read. "The banks are a joke with no service high account fees and far too high interest rates on all loan accounts," read another. Noting the avalanche of complaints, Senator Ketter said Labor will continue to fight for ...

Negative gearing exposing Australia's poor: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
KPMG warns any increase in Australia's historically low interest rates would cause serious economic problems and affect households across the entire financial spectrum, from rich to poor. The industry consultant said one of its biggest concerns is that ...

The prescience of Super Mario

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... triggered speculations that the European Central Bank (ECB) would not only taper its QE programme soon but also lift interest rates by the first quarter of 2018. The problem with this is that stronger economic growth has so far not translated into higher ...