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Alternatives managers celebrated at annual event

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... taking out the award for Best Long Short Equity Fund and Macquarie's Pure Alpha Fund being recognised as the Best Market Neutral Fund. Other winners on the night include the Tribeca Global Natural Resources Fund which was named Best Emerging Manager ...

Beware creative debt packaging: Robeco

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... funds about fixed income strategies and insights, said Australia from a top-down debt sustainability perspective sits at 'neutral.' The household sector being quite leveraged at 125%, and well above the level of Spain and Ireland before the financial ...

APRA launches inquiry into CBA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2017
... levels of public trust, confidence and transparency in the banking industry, with 70% placing their level of trust at neutral or low.

New Zealand advice industry to be overhauled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... the FMC Act regime. Unlike the FA Act, the new Bill enables the provision of more types of advice by being technology-neutral, lifting the existing restrictions around advice needing to be provided by a human adviser. In turn, this allows for the provision ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... snuffed hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash rate setting of 11/2% today is ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... indicate some probability of an increase in the cash rate by mid 2018." "Members discussed the Bank's work estimating the neutral real interest rate for Australia. The various estimates suggested that the rate had been broadly stable until around 2007 ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... offered a dovish forward guidance, stating that while the current level of the fed funds rate "remains somewhat below its neutral level... the neutral rate is currently quite low by historical standards" and therefore, "the federal funds rate would not ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... improved to 96.6 in July from 96.2 in June, it remained at levels where pessimists are much more than optimists (100 being neutral) for the eight straight month. But back to the NAB survey. Rising business conditions and business confidence (up to +9 ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... statement following its quarterly meeting, Xinhua news agency recently reported the PBOC's commitment to "prudent and neutral monetary policy" as well as its aim to "accelerate financial reforms to improve the financial sector's efficiency". The PBOC ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... Everybody got it right on the first - the RBA kept interest rates on hold - but missed on the second as it maintained a neutral stance. And for good reasons. It remains optimistic over the domestic growth outlook and still views the March quarter GDP ...