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Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

Hold fire: Emerging market debt set for correction

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... which allowed current account balances to deteriorate in emerging markets, are going to go back up. When they do the currencies of these countries are going to have to weaken to allow balance sheets to return to more sustainable levels," Osses explained. ...

Voya appoints head of emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... classes in emerging markets including sovereign and corporate debt, macro analysis, country research, sovereign risk, currencies. He reports to the company's head of public fixed income Matt Toms. Voya IM is represented in Australia by local third party ...

ATO considers increasing Bitcoin control

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... crypto-currency holders to keep records of their transactions. The ATO has released guidance of the tax ramifications of crypto-currencies and how various parts of the tax law apply to the likes of Bitcoin. It also refers to draft ATO rulings which are ...

Multi-asset emerging market approach halves volatility

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... sovereign bonds, local currency government bonds, corporate dollar bonds, local currency corporate bonds and local currencies. Capital Group senior vice president and head of Australia Paul Hennessy said: "We introduced a unit trust ETOP vehicle in 2012 ...

PineBridge launches DAA fund

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... achieve optimal outcomes for investors. The structure of a DAA fund is highly dependent on local conditions such as currencies and risk tolerances, which is why we are launching a domestic product," he said. PineBridge is a global asset manager and oversees ...

Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... minutes' blah, blah on the Fed's exit strategy, its concern over low volatility in the market for stocks, bonds and currencies, end to taper in October, the timing of first rate hike... blah, blah, blah and blah. All these are important of course - and ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... that the US economy is freezing to a standstill. The massive outflow of funds in emerging markets that sent emerging currencies dropping. The momo, biotech and social media stocks tick tock. I remember this well, this was the time (mid-April) that Dr. ...

Platforms pushed by utility as well as technology

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... for households," he added. This has enabled platforms to be launched catering for private banking clients by offering currencies and bonds, for example, he said. But before these new platforms come into the Australian market, Nick Sherry, a former senator ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... respective monetary policies last week. All three kept interest rates unchanged. All three are closely monitoring their currencies exchange rate against Uncle Sam's legal tender. And they don't like what they see. The Australian dollar has risen by 4.5% ...