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Super fund appetite for property funding up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... institutions in this type of strategy." As returns in other yield generating assets have been suppressed by quantitative easing, Super funds have broadened their horizons in the search for returns. At the same time, Schwartz said new investors are stepping ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... concerning as this eventuated amidst a backdrop of rising company profits aided by the BOJ's qualitative and quantitative easing policy (QQE) that depreciated the Japanese yen vis-A -vis its competition. Business investment dropped by 1.3% in the three ...

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... that does not like uncertainty and that is anxious to test the effects of the hike in a country that has left quantitative easing behind. With some predicting that rates will raise gradually and to a lower point than what was expected initially, the ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... If the Fed continues to delay lift-off, they'll be the ones forced to act to increase the amount of their quantitative easing programmes, to cheapen their currencies to lift growth and inflation. The same goes for the RBA.

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... founder of the world's largest hedge fund, is predicting that the Federal Reserve will launch a fresh round of quantitative easing rather than tightening at its coming policy meeting in September." Sounds familiarly like the opening line of my 21 August ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... will increase are the "normalisation" of monetary policy following the US Federal Reserve tapering of its quantitative easing programs. Other drivers are investors' demand for higher compensation to counter illiquidity caused by increased regulation ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... managers never seem to agree on Europe. Is it the biggest investment opportunity since the United States under quantitative easing? Or is it just too messy, too complex, too risky? The political risk When anti-austerity party Siryza won the Greek legislative ...

FEATURE: Defending wealth

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... markets fell sharply. Some global financial institutions were intervened by governments, others collapsed. Quantitative easing (QE) started in the United States, while the rest of the world braced against unemployment and negative growth. While Australia ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... compete with QE-ing central banks. Is Ben suggesting what I think he's suggesting? "I'm pretty confident [quantitative easing programs] have been effective, and, at least so far, they haven't had many of the bad side-effects that people were saying were ...