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ANZ confirms markets managing director

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... responsible for growing ANZ's markets business which provides product across foreign exchange, capital markets, interest rates, commodities and derivatives, as well as specialist research and risk management expertise. Collins will continue to report ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... Expectations Survey released by the Melbourne Institute shows that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) couldn't have cut interest rates soon enough. Recall that the RBA cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.75% after its 3 May Board meeting following ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... component increased by 4.9% over the month Despite the strong survey results, Westpac still expects the RBA to cut interest rates further in August "after it has had time to further analyse the inflation trends in the June quarter and the March quarter ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... inflation forecasts from 2%-3% to 1%-2% this year before rising to 1.5%-2.5% in 2017. Not on their watch! Lower interest rates means less yield on cash equals more money going to the stock market seeking higher yields. But more importantly, lower interest ...

Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... modelling, Standard Life Investments believes global real GDP growth of 1% combined with 1% inflation and sub-1% interest rates would translate to an annualised equity market return of just 1.5% over the next decade. Though the bleak, low growth scenario ...

Super investment pros make top 40

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... Chatfield said. HESTA's Harman said core fixed income was troubling "given the low yields, vulnerability to rising interest rates, and managers pushing themselves out on the risk curve." Allocation to real assets is a conundrum facing ESS Super's Kempton. ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... reverse the trend of weakening inflation in the domestic economy before it turns into outright deflation. Cutting interest rates is the almost universal knee-jerk response from the financial markets - as evidenced by the drop in the Australian dollar. ...

BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... choice but to invest in stocks having already pursued quantitative easing via bond purchases and also negative interest rates. "To critics already wary of the central bank's outsized impact on the Japanese bond market, the BOJ's growing influence in ...

Fixed income China's sweet spot

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... benefit from using China for diversification and yield opportunities. "In a global environment with low-to-negative interest rates, Chinese Government Bond yields (currently at approximately 3% for 10 year bonds) are more attractive than yields in other ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... purchase programme (CSPP). In his introductory statement, ECB president Mario Draghi announced that the ECB expects interest rates "to remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time, and well past the horizon of our net asset purchases". ...