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No such thing as a free lunch: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... experience with other monetary options. "We had another discussion on this at our meeting two weeks ago," Lowe said. "Central banks around the world have all moved in the same general direction, but they have configured their monetary support packages ...

Sovereign investors keen on gold, infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... positioned going into the crisis, according to the report which polled 139 institutions (83 sovereign funds and 56 central banks) with US $19 trillion at March end. Over the next 12 months sovereigns plan to continue allocating to fixed income. About ...

Opportunities in EM debt rebound: Eaton Vance

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... Vance said. "Looking ahead from a macro perspective, easing monetary and fiscal policies from the world's major central banks will likely provide support for the asset class, as will the low yields available in core sovereign bond markets (USTs ...

Vale Ian Perkins

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... all of the firm's asset owner clients, including pension and sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and central banks. In this role, he was delivered strategy, P&L, markets and product solutions to these asset owner clients.

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... to contract between 6.0% in 2020 (under a single-hit scenario) and 7.3% (under a double-hit scenario). As such, central banks and governments everywhere have implemented unprecedented economic stimulus measures, virtually opening the money floodgates ...

Chief economist update: The All Ords' ups, downs and ups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... funds rate three times (in July, September and October) while at the same time, and along with other major world central banks, offering forward guidance that monetary policy would remain accommodative going forward. So much so, that the IMF forecasts ...

Chief economist update: This rebound is brought to you by the letter V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... gradual easing of restrictions has unfrozen social and business activity in almost every nation that decided to do so. Central banks and governments can flood the system with all the money they have, or can print, but with consumers not allowed out and/or ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's Cinderella moment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... other world governments - have the welfare of their respective economies and constituents in mind. Much more than central banks trying to strike a balance between unemployment and inflation - the coronavirus presents policymakers a chicken and egg dilemma. ...

Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... the divergence. "Monetary policy has become accommodative across the board, with unprecedented support from major central banks, and monetary easing in emerging markets including through first time use of unconventional policies," she said. "Discretionary ...

The secret to neutralising sequencing risk

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... equities and bonds, the markets' performance since 2009 globally had seemed like a one-way street for investors, as central banks around the world sought to stabilise a financial system with negative-interest rate policy (NIRP) and its close cousin ...