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Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... Jerome will not acquiesce to Trump's "demand" to chop rates "by at least 100 basis points, with perhaps some quantitative easing as well". Doing so would just heighten financial market anxiety. Jerome's task is not made any easier by the current ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... he? bend to Trump's recent demand to cut the fed funds rate "by at least 100 basis points, with perhaps some quantitative easing as well"? Obeying Trump's diktat would just erode the fed's credibility and independence while at the same time ...

ASIC to review end of grandfathering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... regulator will report on anything holding up the transition away from grandfathered remuneration. The review will be both quantitative and qualitative. The quantitative review will see entities known to pay grandfathered commissions under the regulators ...

Sean Fenton back with Sage Capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... strategies: a long/short Aussie equities fund and a "hedge fund-type" absolute return fund. The investment style combines quantitative analysis with human-led fundamental company research and an awareness of macroeconomics. Fenton is one of the longest-standing ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... "The Fed Rate, over a fairly short period of time, should be reduced by at least 100 basis points, with perhaps some quantitative easing as well. If that happened, our Economy would be even better, and the World Economy would be greatly and quickly enhanced-good ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... necessary: "We are prepared to do unconventional things if the circumstances warranted it". Negative interest rates? Quantitative easing? You name it! But these policy prescriptions/actions aren't "unconventional" anymore... they have become the ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... negative 0.35%. "The RBNZ could also conduct large scale purchases of either government or corporate bonds, known as quantitative easing" or "the targeted use of fiscal policy to support any unconventional monetary policy," it says. Surely, other central ...

JANA hires quantitative applications lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... Consultants appointed a former Victorian Funds Management Corporation executive in the newly created role of head of quantitative applications. Michael Watt was chief executive and principal consultant at PortfolioMetrics for almost two years before ...

Buy time ahead for Aussie equities: Tribeca

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... healthcare and industrials (about 11% each). Earlier this year, Liu's longstanding co-portfolio manager Sean Fenton and a quantitative analyst Peter Moore left the firm to start a new boutique at Channel Capital.

AXA equities executive departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... Framlington in November, He began his career as an economist at Williams and Glynn (now RBS). In June last year, the chief quantitative strategist for AXA Investment Managers' Rosenberg equities business moved to HESTA where he took on the role of ...