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Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Contrary to the popular belief, robots are more likely to take over the tasks of medium and high-skilled workers, rather than jobs that do not require a university education, a Department of Industry paper determined. "The challenges presented by increasing ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... ultra low and negative interest rates and TLTRO (targeted long-term refinancing operations) and asset-backed securities programme and covered bond purchase programme to work and make outright QE not necessary. This, or as we've witnessed at the height ...

Sydney set to become China share trading hub

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... via the Shanghai exchange. Investors must be accredited through the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) programme which limits foreign investors from holding more than 10% of a Chinese listed company and requires them to hold investments ...

Shanghai-HK Connect connects China to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... with this don't you? It's the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect. We've been waiting for this since PM Li announced the programme in April this year. It's happening. The long wait will finally be over. It's coming soon to a theatre near us... very soon. ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... know, it's a combination of three measures. The so-called TLTROs, the purchases of covered bonds, and the ABS purchase programme. We are quite confident that the impact on our balance sheet size will be adequate and significant. And then of course we ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
It's that time of the year again folks, the first Tuesday of November, when the "Race that Stops the Nation' - the Melbourne Cup - meets with the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision. I have lived in Australia (and Melbourne, at ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. And we all know, where there's meat... there's a barbecue. This is exactly what Wall Street did overnight - it partied ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... that it would "purchase a broad portfolio of simple and transparent asset-backed securities... under an ABS purchase programme (ABSPP)" and "purchase a broad portfolio of euro-denominated covered bonds issued by MFIs domiciled in the euro area under ...

Women in Super NSW scholarship winners named

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Women in Super chair Keri Pratt has announced the winners of its fourth annual NSW scholarship programme. The scholarships were awarded to Perennial Value Management senior manager of institutional business Camilla Love, Christian Super senior investment ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... with underlying assets consisting of claims against the euro area non-financial private sector under an ABS purchase programme (ABSPP). This reflects the role of the ABS market in facilitating new credit flows to the economy and follows the intensification ...