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Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... moving up towards its target. Never mind what I scribbled but the insights, outlook and decisions made by four world central banks that met last week underscore that the world is in a better place, all against the backdrop of the turmoil on Wall Street. ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... a-shopping. This also suggests market participants are getting their predictions closer to correct. How can they not when central banks are signalling their intents in real time and in some cases, signalling the change in their signal about their intent? ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
"Be careful what you wish for." It's a well-known truism in the current economic cycle that the world's major central banks (the BOE excluded) have been wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' for inflation to climb to their target rates. It appears ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... respondents believe the global economy is strengthening, while 70% are neutral. Moreover, 35% of APAC respondents believe central banks in the region will move from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening. Investors in the region are most concerned ...

Derivatives costly and ineffective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... returns since the global financial crisis. Investment returns in six of those years have been no lower than 8.7% as central banks around the world have flooded markets with liquidity, pumping up asset prices. However, market cycles continue and funds ...

Supervised Investments wins global fixed income mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... the strategy, J.P. Morgan Asset Management head of Australia funds David Hallifax said: "The key to 2018 will be central banks and the extent to which they continue to support bond markets through ultra-accommodative policies. Our strategy employs a ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
The US Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and other central banks have signalled they too will pare stimulatory measures introduced in the wake of the GFC, all of which has significant consequences for money managers in 2018. The Reserve Bank ...

J.P. Morgan wins global fixed income mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... the strategy, J.P. Morgan Asset Management head of Australia funds David Hallifax said: "The key to 2018 will be central banks and the extent to which they continue to support bond markets through ultra-accommodative policies. Our strategy employs a ...

Global wealth manager champions embattled digital currencies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... value." Now Green says: "There is an appetite, a huge and growing one, for currencies that are not controlled by central banks and governments. Supporters believe that these digital currencies are part of the antidote to what they see as the ills caused ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... for Gross' bearish bond stance: "Rising nominal U.S. GDP that will stoke inflation, reduced purchases from global central banks, and higher budget deficits in the US." True that and perfectly rational, particularly given the previous day's commotion ...