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NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... from a reading of 1.2 in August). Yes Virginia, bad news is again good news. No one now expects the Fed to raise interest rates when they meet this month, perhaps even December... perhaps not until 2017. Last 21 August, I asked on this space, "Should ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... Yellen has heard us," Madam Lagarde also told the journal, referring of course to the Fed's indecision decision on interest rates after its 16-17 September meeting. Perhaps not Ms. Lagarde, for Madam Janet clarified a week later that, "Most FOMC participants ...

PIMCO launches bank capital fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... higher premiums, due in part to regulatory-influenced supply, and tend to have a low or negative correlation with interest rates. If rates should rise, capital securities are likely to perform better than other parts of the fixed-income markets."

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... reasonably low rates for longer than market participants thought at the beginning of 2015. Leech said the normalising of interest rates by the US Federal Reserve will proceed but it is going to be a long and slow process. "The Fed is trying to change ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... are either near or in retirement) what they thought about the Federal Open Market Committee's decision to keep interest rates unchanged. Nearly half of all respondents (46%) disagreed, and thought interest rates should have been increased. Slightly more ...

Instos seeking co-designed mandates

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and suppressed yields have prompted Australia's largest institutional investors to seek co-designed mandates. Omega Global Investors managing director George Vassos says larger investors are increasingly seeking discrete mandates ...

FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... and superannuation. But it is also helping us understand them better." An economic context of low returns, low interest rates, high valuations and high volatility is challenging industry institutions that are willing to take action. "Focusing on the ...

Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession. In addition, continuing to hold short-term interest rates near zero well after real activity has returned to normal and headwinds have faded could encourage excessive leverage and ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and proximity to Asia's rising middle class are partly reasons for Australian superannuation funds to be investing in the country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... much has been said - for or against - the Fed's focus on "international developments" as rationale for not lifting interest rates this month, there could be another reason why it didn't... and it's much closer to home....and it's name is shutdown. Yes ...