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Annuity sales boost Challenger results

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... distribution network and product offerings. Long-term sales, which include lifetime annuities and 20-year maturity from its Japanese business Mitsui Sumitomo Primary Life Insurance or MS Private, accounted for 40% of life sales. In October 2016, Challenger ...

Japanese broker targets Aussie SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... Census data. Monex was originally founded in Tokyo as an online brokerage company in 1999. At the time it was purely for Japanese customers to trade Japanese equities and mutual funds. Later it added international products such as FX and US equities. ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... 23 June 2016 Brexit referendum - down 12.0% against the US dollar; 15.4% versus the euro; and, down 7.8% vis-a-vis the Japanese yen since Brexit. The weaker pound has undoubtedly pushed up inflation but it is also shoring up domestic activity. This is ...

Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... and 5% on the TWI. In comparison, the British pound has risen not as much (up 5.5 %) against the US dollar while the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan have appreciated by 5.2% and 3.4%, respectively. Although it still has scope to lower borrowing costs ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... 2.14% at the close of the week ended 23 June (before hawkish comments); Eurozone bonds up 31 bps and UK gilts up 28 bps - Japanese JGBs of the same maturity increased by a mere four bps over the same period. BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's silence may ...

Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... since the first quarter of 2014 and marks the third consecutive quarter of rising confidence. The same is true for small Japanese manufacturers with the index rising from 5 in the first quarter to 7 in the second quarter - the best reading since Q1 2007. ...

May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... the elections: it fell by 1.6% versus the US dollar; it went down by 1.3% against the euro and by 1.1% vis-a-vis the Japanese yen. It wasn't all bad news though. The FTSE 100 index rose by 1.0% the day after the elections, for a 5.4% gain this year to ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... downward pressure on inflation - headline 0.4% in the year to April; core at 0.3% -- and making it harder/longer for the Japanese central bank to hit its targeted 2.0% inflation rate. This is why Bloomberg's report that the BOJ is "re-calibrating its ...

Veteran WTW investments head departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... deputy manager at the Industrial Bank of Japan. Since joining WTW, Ogai has served as managing consultant for the firm's Japanese business and leader of the Tokyo investment team. "Taro's all-round business and client experience make him well suited ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... constant contraction. In addition, the BOJ's own 'Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices at Large Japanese Banks (April 2017)' report showed loan demand from households decelerated to a reading of 7 over the past three months from ...