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Learn to live with inflation: BlackRock

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
BlackRock Investment Institute shared its thoughts on how to thrive in a 'new market regime', including the outlook for equities and inflation. According to the global investment institute, the global economy is currently entering a new market ...

Australia confirms economic sanctions against Russia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
... banks from the SWIFT global payments messaging system. They also include restrictive measures to prevent the Russian Central Bank from using its international reserves in a way that undermines sanctions. Further, so-called "golden passports" for wealthy ...

EM investors brace for geopolitical impact

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
Russia's shocking attack on the Ukraine has far-reaching implications for emerging markets investors. Franklin Templeton's emerging markets team said it is "monitoring developments very closely, with the twin goals of being risk-aware and prioritising ...

Chief economist: Is this a buy op?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
'War in Ukraine wipes $73b from sharemarket': According to the Australian Financial Review that's how much Australia's sharemarket lost upon hearing the news that Russia has invaded Ukraine. Both the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index and the ...

Chief economist: Thank you, Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
War, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhh - Edwin Starr "Crude soars, and stocks and crypto bomb lower, as fears of a Russia-Ukraine war consume global markets" - Fortune.com (22 February 2022) "The Dow Falls Just Short of a Correction. ...

Big tech, interest rates dominate reporting season

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
... begs the question, where to from here, given investors are basking in the afterglow of an unprecedented, coordinated central bank pandemic response," he said.

What fund selectors want: Natixis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... threats for 2022 are. In first place, 51% are most concerned about supply chain disruption, 45% said less supportive central bank policy is their main concern, 40% cited COVID-19 variants, 39% are most concerned about US/China relations and 24% are worried ...

AustralianSuper appoints to advisory team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... more than 30 years' experience in financial services. He joined PGGM from De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the Dutch central bank, where over 21 years he held a variety of roles culminating in responsibility for financial markets from 2007-2011. AustralianSuper ...

Economists expect a rate rise: Finder

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... costs start to climb." Capital Economics' Ben Udy said the RBA will end quantitative easing, a process where the central bank creates new cash to decrease, or ease, the cost of borrowing, in February. "While the RBA has previously said that it would ...

Federal Reserve mulls central bank digital currency

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
The US Federal Reserve Board is examining the pros and cons of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as it considers whether the creation of one would improve the domestic payments system. Considering the current state of the US domestic payments system ...