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Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... monthly. d) extend QE beyond end-September next year. e) expand list of assets for QE purchases. f) a combination of the above. Whatever it is, I'm sure that it we'll not only see mommy kissing Santa Mario on 3 December, daddy too. But before this, we'll ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... protection insurance. And then as they progress with REST as a member we offer them the opportunity to take out voluntary cover above that standard level." Read the rest of this article in the print edition of Financial Standard. Click here to download ...

Pengana finding plenty to buy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... to preserve investors' capital and provide downside protection in difficult markets - generating a return of at least 6% above the RBA cash rate, no matter what markets are doing. Pengana currently manages about $1.5 billion in assets across five equity ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... Fed lift-off only to recover after the Fed maintained the status quo. Reduced betting on a 2015 rate hike has taken the A$ above US$0.73 in recent days. But as Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake commented last April, "Albert Einstein ...

ETF inflows defy choppy markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... movements was almost completely offset by inflows." Total net inflows for the market in September was $503 million, slightly above the monthly average for the past 12 months. Of this, 38% ($190 million) went into Australian equities strategies (about ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... between the nominal 10-year Treasuries and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) - inflation expectations - was above the Fed's 2% inflation target and the 5-year differential not too far below. This helped clinched Bernanke's taper. But look ...

PM Capital wins Zenith award

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... manager Ashley Pittard. "This approach has enabled us to provide our investors with a total excess return after fees of 259% above the MSCI World index since inception in 1998." Pittard added, "Being a value investor, or contrarian investor as it is ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... improvement in 2015 is not all that surprising." Therefore, "I don't see raising the target range for the fed-funds rate above its current low level in 2015 or 2016 as being consistent with the pursuit of the kind of labor market outcomes that we are ...

Tax conversation in a bubble

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... reform are many and varied but mostly focus on taxing income paid out of superannuation on retirement which is over and above a certain "reasonable" level." Chapman said growth in the cost of tax breaks associated with superannuation savings "has been ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... Fed's decision to maintain policy settings where they are or the resurgence in equity and commodity markets or all of the above but it seems the times. they're not a-changin'. This, at least, could be gleaned from two central banks that conducted their ...