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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 ...

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... and are looking ahead," Baur said. In the last decade or so people around the world were scared of relapse; the central banks were worried about deflation and Baur thinks those worries are going away. He said it's important to keep the distinction between ...

Expecting the expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... expected and well-telegraphed 25 basis point rate hike. But while the Fed was CB of the week, other major world central banks also met and did what they signalled they'll be doing. And just as the Fed, they see 2017's stronger growth-low inflation dynamics ...

America is full

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... workers with the required skills was a key factor restraining hiring plans". And this is the Fed's (and other major central banks) conundrum du' jour. Overall inflation in the economy can't really gain traction unless it receives a tailwind from stronger ...

ARCO Investment Management launches new strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... continue to underpin relatively expensive equity valuations, but this trade is now very long in the tooth. Offshore central banks seem keen to lift rates and tighten liquidity, which may well increase equity market volatility," ARCO co-founder and co-portfolio ...

Oil's gift to central bankers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... merely a knee-jerk reaction but if the oil price continues to head north, it could be just the thing that makes central banks' wishes come true. That wish of course, is for higher inflation. And it could for oil's demand fundamentals are strengthening ...