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Sovereign investors change tack: Invesco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... alternatives," Pan said. "This year's study also revealed an increasing sophistication in the asset allocation of central banks, which are expanding beyond traditional fixed income assets and adopting some similar investing trends as their sovereign ...

EM bonds attractive despite pullback: Eaton Vance

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... few years," she said. "In EM, the picture is quite different. Many individual countries are growing fast, and most central banks are not hiking rates. In fact, those that have been hiking have broadly been defending their currencies. Also, much of the ...

Aviva Investors appoints Asia institutional sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... Clapham served as AXA Investment Managers' head of consultant relations and the head of sovereign wealth funds and central banks (Asia), insto sales. He will focus on building new partnerships and strengthening existing relationships with institutional ...

Chief economist update: Draining the swamp

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
"We're going to drain the swamp." This was one of US President Donald Trump's battle cry when he was still campaigning for the top job in America. It looks like he's on his way to fulfilling this promise but instead, Trump's draining ...

Cryptocurrencies on radar but not priority: RBA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... The Reserve Bank has closely followed developments in the crypto sphere for about five years. It works with other central banks as well as interacts with big and small entities active in cryptocurrency, according to RBA head of payments policy Tony Richards. ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... centre of the issue, it's anybody's guess. But the fact is it's already worrying the world's biggest central banks, which expressed their concerns at the ECB Forum on Central Banking held at Sintra, Portugal on 18-20 June. US Fed Chairman ...

Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Just like the other major world central banks that met before it this month - the Fed, ECB and BOJ - the Bank of England (BOE) did not disappoint market expectations (unlike in its May meeting where Governor Carney hinted at a rate hike months before ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... depreciations in emerging markets which puts upward pressure on inflation that, in turn, is forcing their respective central banks to raise interest rates - recall the central banks of Argentina and Turkey's recent big rate rises? - ultimately slowing ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... are so near to achieving their goal, evidenced by the decisions and announcement of the world's three biggest central banks. The Fed raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 1.75%-2%, as expected. But as testament to its optimism over growth ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... for continued Fed policy normalisation - three rate hikes expected (and done) in 2017 - while other major world central banks keep their own policy settings unchanged at relatively low settings. The monetary policy backdrop was spot on but the US dollar ...