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UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... government bonds, state bonds (where it doesn't invest West of Melbourne, in mining states) and supranational bonds. But last March, it seeded a sophisticated/wholesale investor-only strategy that invests in global sovereigns, semi-government, agencies ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... more dovish. Recall that the Fed's forward guidance for four interest rate hikes this year were halved to just two last March. Although this remains the Fed consensus at the June meeting, "Figure 2. FOMC participants' assessments of appropriate monetary ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) show that Australia issued a 20-year bond paying just 2.75% coupon last March. The last time it issued a 20-year tenor (November 2013), we were paying 4.5%. So go ahead Joe, borrow money so we can all ...

MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... insurance, fewer than 10% had personal insurance. Research published by the Financial Services Council (FSC) and MetLife last March showed 35% of Australian workers had no disability insurance and 19% of families did not have any life insurance. Further ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... time period." Slap me now! That'll teach me for presuming that the "you know... 6 months after..." she blurted out last March was Freudian slip. Though to be fair (to me), I did type last week that I'm with Janet - versus the Federal Reserve Bank of ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... region's consumer prices show the annual inflation rate easing to 0.5% In May from 0.7% in the previous month - as low as last March's figure and both at five-year lows. Take out the prices of volatile components - food, energy, alcohol and tobacco - ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... it's a move towards currency liberalisation it said -- when it doubled the yuan's trading band against the greenback last March - but currency depreciation by any other name is... However, both the yen and the yuan's still up -- 3.3% and 0.5%, respectively ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... sides of US politics heading into the cliff - and then... a compromise. What Matt Bai wrote in the 'New York Times' last March still applies today. "The Grand Bargain is within reach" (he was talking about the looming cliff in the context of last July's ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... 156.2 in the June quarter. And yes, we've heard this before. When the December quarter 2011 GDP figures were released last March - up 0.4% against expectations of 0.8% -- someone (I again refuse to name names) warned us that, "With a government forced ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... earlier this month, the Peoples Bank of China reduced rates by 25 bps on top of chopping the reserve requirement ratio last March, February and December last year. Please join me in wishing and hoping and praying that they succeed. Amen.