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Standard Life Investments calls for more monetary easing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
Standard Life Investments chief economist Jeremy Lawson has called on governments to ease monetary policy further in light of some worrying structural trends which he said were amplified by the result of the UK's referendum on EU membership. Lawson ...

Cbus signs new Paris ESG commitment

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
... Statement on Investor Obligations and Duties. The Principles of Responsible Investment, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and The Generation Foundation launched the new statement in Paris last week, based on their joint finding ...

La Trobe Financial prices $250m RMBS Issue

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... from our previous transactions, we are extremely pleased to welcome many new investors into the La Trobe Financial RMBS programme. We are building the foundations for future programmatic RMBS issuances and look forward to continuing to be an active participant ...

New ETFs launched to cater for BOJ stimulus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... management industry is launching exchange traded funds to cater specifically for the central bank's massive monetary easing programme. Three new "physical and human capital" ETFs are designed solely for the Bank of Japan, which needs fresh assets to ...

Oxford-Man Institute expands into machine learning

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
The University of Oxford and Man AHL have announced that the Oxford-Man Institute (OMI) will expand its focus on machine learning and data analytics, becoming part of the University's department of engineering and science from 1 August 2016. The expansion ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO II) purchases of corporate bonds under the corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP). In his introductory statement, ECB president Mario Draghi announced that the ECB expects interest rates "to remain ...

Gold starts to glisten (like 2008?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... Fed lifted off). Back to 2008. Gold started to take off in November of that year after the first launched its first QE programme. Prices surged from US$750 an ounce in November 2008 to a record high US$1,900.30/ounce by September 2011 - thanks to successive ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... in town - and its name is "Quantitative and Qualitative Easing with a Negative Interest Rate". The BOJ left its QQE programme at the current level of ¥80 trillion per annum following its 29 January Board meeting. This was widely expected with a few ...

NZ Super Fund invests in affordable housing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... Auckland's median house cost; another third will be priced "at $550,000 or below under the Hobsonville Point affordable homes programme," according to NZ Super Fund's statement. "We have compatible values and our collective scale has been integral ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... days - reinforced by Draghi's mid-November statement, in Frankfurt this time, that, "We consider the asset purchase programme to be a powerful and flexible instrument, as it can be adjusted in terms of size, composition or duration to achieve a more ...