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Chief economist update: RBA negative on negative interest rate policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... inclined to save rather than spend." "That is, the income effect can be larger than the substitution effect. To date, those economies with negative policy rates have not lowered them further. Instead, they have eased monetary policy settings through ...

MSCI launches UN SDG alignment tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... their effect on the environment and society, and report on those efforts, compared to their counterparts in developing economies," MSCI head of ESG research and executive director Olga Emelianova said. MSCI head of ESG Remy Briand, said there is increasing ...

RBA observes weakness and uncertainty

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... global economy had been experiencing an uneven recovery after a very severe contraction in the first half of 2020. "Some economies with high or rising COVID-19 infection rates had recently lost momentum. In contrast, economic growth had been relatively ...

Chief economist update: Prime Minister Suga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... early. New Zealand maintained current restrictions while flagging a lifting of curbs next week". In addition, global economies and financial markets have already rebounded from the deep slump experienced in the first quarter of 2020. Then again, COVID-19 ...

Investors seek to increase EM exposure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... and 29% in North America. Vontobel suggested this may reflect the fact that many APAC investors have seen developing economies in their region, led by China, faring much better than some developed markets.

Chief economist update: The second oil price discounting wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... virtual standstill and factories in lockdown at the time, the planet is drowning in oil. The many of restrictions in many economies around the world, especially in China, in the second quarter of this year, and the OPEC+ cuts in production, sent oil ...

Fees fall after super mergers: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... pre-merger fees against those post-merger, with the average fall coming in at 14%. "Mergers have created efficiencies and economies of scale for the funds, which has led to members being better off," Rainmaker executive director of research Alex Dunnin ...

Chief economist update: Australia succumbs to pandemic-induced recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... and the subsequent recession there in 2001, and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 that subsequently put many world economies into a recession. But now it's all over. A teenie-weenie microscopic organism has ended the Australian economy's 29-year ...

Official recession not that scary: Economists

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... "The underlying equation is simple. The greater the success against the virus, the greater the success in protecting economies against the pandemic." "At the other end of the scale, the hit to most economies is rather larger than that seen in Australia." ...

Cbus pledges net zero emissions

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... real economy and avoid assets that will inevitably become stranded. Cbus chief investment officer Kristian Fok said the economies of 2030 and 2050 will look very different to what we have experienced over the last few decades and high-risk climate holdings ...