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RBA rate rises up in the air: Economists

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023
... hikes, however recent instability has economists recalibrating their view. The coin is being tossed ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) meeting next month, with suggestions that an eleventh consecutive rate rise is not completely off the ...

US agencies act to prevent crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2023
... a banking crisis are being implemented. It comes as local tech companies confirm minimal exposures to the Silicon Valley Bank failure. Early this morning, a joint statement from US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, Fed chair Jerome Powell and Federal ...

Four themes driving 2023: Iggo

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... beyond what is already priced in i.e., 5% for the US Federal Reserve's fed funds rate; 3.25% to 3.5% for the European Central Bank's deposit rate; and 4.5% for the Bank of England's bank rate. "Further declines in inflation rates in the months ahead ...

QIC sees changes in private debt, liquid markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2022
... fixed-income and liquid markets. She has been with the Queensland state government investor for 20 years, joining from the Bank of England, where she worked as an economist. Before that, in 1997, she was an economist at the Queensland Treasury. Meanwhile ...

Susan Buckley to leave QIC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2022
... fixed interest at BT Funds Management, fixed interest strategist at Suncorp Investments and economist at National Australia Bank. For her part, Morris has been with QIC for 20 years, joining from the Bank of England where she worked as an economist. ...

RBA anticipated to lift the cash rate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
According to Finder's RBA Cash Rate survey, 97% of economists and experts have forecast that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will increase the cash rate today. The survey found that almost two-thirds of respondents predicted a rise of 50 basis ...

Brookfield names leadership for asset management business

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney will become chair of Brookfield Asset Management when it lists separately in November. Carney will take on the role in addition to his other responsibilities as head of transition investing. He is currently ...

TIP Group launches first UK fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
... to wholesale investors, the Sterling Debt Fund aims to generate a target fixed income interest rate return of 7% above the Bank of England's base rate (currently 1.25%). Also, interest distributions will be made quarterly to investors. TIP UK head Malcolm ...

Wayne Byres to stand down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2022
... been with APRA since its establishment in 1998, working across policy and supervision. He previously worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia for more than a decade, including a secondment to the Bank of England. He has been chair since July 2014 and ...

Treasurer announces RBA review

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is instituting the first major review of the setting of monetary policy and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) since the 1990s. In the context of Australia facing a complex combination of difficult economic conditions, Chalmers ...