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Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
The European Central Bank's (ECB) 26 April Governing Council meeting produced unchanged monetary policy settings yet again, marking the 26th month of inaction. The eurozone's interest rates haven't changed - repo rate at 0.0%; deposit facility at -0.40% ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... how to react and mitigate the uncertainty that is Trump on their respective economies. Case in point: the European Central Bank. Speaking before the Watchers XIX Conference on the 14 March - before Trump's tariffs took effect and before Trump granted ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... the case now. Market is trading on a muscle memory than necessarily anything that's economically real. "In the same way European and Japanese equities shouldn't be terrified of the interest rate moves in the US, emerging market debt shouldn't be terrified ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... Important long-standing commercial agreements, such as NAFTA and the economic arrangements between the UK and rest of the European Union, are under renegotiation. An increase in trade barriers and regulatory realignments, in the context of these negotiations ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) were released last week. Despite their economies operating at different points in the ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying reason for investors' increased appetite for the euro. ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... and real estate debt. This said, APAC instos still have lower allocations to alternative credit than North American or European peers. The study said the increase in alternative credit investment comes down to generating alpha and improving diversification ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... become lower even more. Instead of speculating over exit strategies and taper, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank may find themselves expanding their stimulus measures in order to cheapen their respective currencies versus the US dollar. ...

Chief economist update: One hike this year, one hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... noted in its December 2017 monetary policy statement, "Developments regarding the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union - and in particular the reaction of households, businesses and asset prices to them - remain the most significant influence ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... bond yields, after the release of the minutes of the ECB's December meeting prompted speculations that the European Central Bank would start tapering its policy stimulus sooner-than-expected. Weidmann couldn't be anymore clearer: "The governing council ...