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Chief economist update: BOJ to stop throwing good money after bad?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... programme to allow for a more natural rise in long-term interest rates to alleviate the reduced profitability/losses among Japanese banks due to close to zero long term rates. That might be but the financial markets' reaction would make the BOJ want ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... concerns when he joined the ECB Forum on Central Banking held at Sintra, Portugal on 18-20 June: "The indirect impact on the Japanese economy could be quite significant...if this escalation of tariffs between the US and China continues"... while at the ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... are lessons from the past, and they are all very negative." BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda: "The indirect impact on the Japanese economy could be quite significant...if this escalation of tariffs between the US and China continues"... while at the same ...

AMP Capital appoints portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... portfolio manager/analyst at the GLRE team - to be based in Hong Kong. He has more than 18 years of experience including in Japanese real estate market - an area where AMP Capital sees key growth opportunities. In his previous roles, Ichii has worked ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... the summer of 2019. Similarly, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) did not disappoint expectations and kept policy unchanged. The Japanese central bank remains optimistic that the economy is "expanding moderately" and that the momentum towards achieving 2% inflation ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... connection between the forecast and policy actions." This prompted speculations of a policy exit that in turn, sent the Japanese yen and the yield on 10-year Japanese government bond yields higher, nullifying the BOJ's efforts. Japan needs to come good ...

Daido Life buys stake in life insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
Japanese life insurer Daido Life acquired a 14.9% stake in an Australian life insurer in an effort to expand offshore. Daido Life invested $13 million in the newly launched Integrity Group, the owner of Integrity Life. Worth $18 billion, Daido Life ...

Citi launches currency product, targets HNW investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... in the GCA currently include the Australian Dollar, US Dollar, British Pound, Euro, Canadian Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar, Japanese Yen, New Zealand Dollar, Singapore Dollar and the Swiss Franc, and there is potential to expand the list based on customer ...

CBA sells interests in Chinese insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
... Chinese life insurance joint venture for $668 million. CBA sold its 37.5% equity interest in BoComm Life Insurance to Japanese insurer Mitsui Sumitomo as per a condition of the bank's sale of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance businesses to ...

Chief economist update: Onwards and downwards to a recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... down from an annualised growth rate of 1.6% to just 0.6% or in year-over-year terms, down from 2.1% to 1.8%. The latest Japanese growth (ungrowth?) figures underline the impact of policy exit speculations and reasoning behind the BOJ's recent decision ...