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Bonds raise alarm at fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... These bonds were highly illiquid and H20's six funds together had more than €1.4 billion invested in them, Financial Times estimated on June 18. H20 defended its positions in a note three days later saying its Windhorst-related positions were "marginal" ...

Chief economist update: Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... sector is not one of them. The FTSE-100 index's 10.3% rally this year gives credence to his statement. The Financial Times also quoted Carney saying: "Businesses have been working to put in contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit". The jump in the ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... Still, the ECB has every right to be concerned because of some of its member nations' exposure to Turkey. The Financial Times reports that: "A supervisory review by the ECB does not yet see the issue as critical but it is concerned that borrowers ...

Chief economist update: At the core-core of it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... "core-core inflation" measure to declare that the economy is no longer in a state of deflation. According to the Financial Times, Kuroda made this statement in September 2016, after earlier stats showed that while both headline and core inflation rates ...

Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... though it was not included in the list of countries Trump benevolently granted tariff exemption. According to the Financial Times, this is because Japan wants to keep "good relations with Trump" (keeping the enemy closer) and that it is confident that ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... stop and pay attention and be afraid...very afraid: "US stock sell-off intensifies, Dow falls over 400 points" (Financial Times) "Stocks get crushed in one of their worst days since Brexit" (Business Insider) "Stocks Tumble, Bonds No Haven as Selloff ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... Bill Gross - known as the "king of bonds" - has recently dropped a bombshell, or in this case, a bond sell. The Financial Times reports that: "The Janus Henderson manager said the $2.2bn Global Unconstrained Bond Fund has taken a short position on Treasuries ...

Rainmaker hires former CIFR chief

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... Faculty of Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) in January 2017, which was recently announced by the Financial Times as being Australia's top ranked MBA program. He is also a research director at Capital Markets CRC and previous academic appointments ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... active market led capital management." In response, Briand referred back to Hargreaves fund manager David Smith's Financial Times piece wherein he said passive management was "inevitably a parasitic industry," saying that "the criticisms from active ...

UK corporate pension deficit swells

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... exacerbated the problems many companies already faced in funding defined-benefit pension schemes, according to the Financial Times. Defined-benefit schemes use the average yields of high-quality bonds to calculate their future liabilities, so lower yields ...