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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 ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... percentage points to 0.5% on 5 March 2009." Yup, that long ago! It also noted the timing and size of its asset purchase programme. "A programme of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves was initiated on 5 March 2009. The previous ...

Australian students get top marks for financial literacy

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
Australian students were amongst the top performers in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 Financial Literacy assessment, which is the first international study of students' financial literacy. The study assessed the ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... that time? The time when she spooked financial markets when she declared that "considerable time" after the purchase programme ends means "... you know, this is the kind of term it's hard to define, but, you know, it probably means something on the order ...