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Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
What lifts all boats? Nah, Virginia, it's no longer "a rising tide" - not if you believe the IMF's latest annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published this month where it printed, "Output across advanced and emerging market economies remains ...

Even simple funds pose risks: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... investment funds, including long only mutual funds, can pose financial stability risks, warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The international body's recent update to its Global Financial Stability Report offered five policy messages about the ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... droves... from New York to Rio and old London town (sorry, NY's ego's still in the way). The good news is that unlike the IMF and the ADB - which you read about mainly when economic disasters strike - China's AIIB would be pro-active. The Asian Infrastructure ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... have another outbreak of herpes... Greece is again the word. Greece may have a fresh face holding the begging bowl to the IMF/ECB/EU troika in Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras but it's the same old, same old game of chickens. Tsipras begsA "please sir ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... month of declines in December to minus 3.3%. The PBOC and/or the government would do more if need be only to ensure that the IMF's predictions of 6.8% growth in 2015 and 6.3% in 2016 do not happen. PM Li doesn't like it like that.

Asia already benefiting from fall in oil prices

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... However, lower prices are likely to have a positive impact on global growth; according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a 10% drop in oil prices could result into a 0.2% increase in global GDP. BlackRock also lists Asian countries as "potential ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
Low inflation, low returns and high volatility are set to be the new normal in 2015. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirmed the trend when it downgraded its growth forecast for the global economy from 3.8% for 2015 in October to a lower 3.5% ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... in nearly a quarter of a century and it missed the Politburo's 7.5% target. You want more? Here's more. The just-released IMF "World Economic Outlook" shows China growing with a 6 in front of it this year and the next - 6.8% in 2015 and 6.3% in 2016. ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... wrong with that? Gentle readers already know my views on this. But don't take it from moi, let's call in the greater minds. IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard argues that the decline in oil would prove to be a "shot in the arm for the global economy" ...

Macquarie executive tops industry salary survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... the top 200 of highest paid executive across all industries were Mortgage Choice chief executive Michael Russell and Bentham IMF managing director Hugh McLernon who made $1.7 million and $1.5 million respectively. Helm, Douglass and Robbiati all saw ...