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Quay Global Investors releases retail real estate fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
Quay Global Investors has released a retail version of its wholesale fund, the Quay Global Real Estate Fund, on the back of demand from financial advisers. Quay portfolio manager and principal Chris Bedingfield said the retail version was a logical ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
A week and a day after equity markets welcomed Super Mario Draghi's announcement that the European Central Bank (ECB) would "review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March in order to secure a return of ...

Cheers to unmet expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
While fears of deflation continue to haunt Japan and the Eurozone, no-flation the United Kingdom, low-flation China, the latest update on Australian consumer prices shows that inflation here is under control. Headline CPI inflation accelerated to an ...

Future Fund puts in another strong year

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... returned 8.4% in the 12 months to 31 December 2015 and 7.7% per annum since inception in May 2006, comfortably ahead of its CPI +4.5% target of 7% per annum. Peter Costello, chairman of the sovereign wealth fund commented: "The Future Fund has a track ...

Prime Super awards multi-asset mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
Prime Super has awarded a multi-asset mandate to a $110.5 billion global investment manager. Following on from Prime Super's insurance mandate with CommInsure on December 12, PineBridge Investments announced the super fund has made an allocation to ...

China's low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... This is the message delivered by the latest update on China's inflation. China Inflation November Dee Consensus Dee Actual CPI - Y/Y Change 1.50% 1.60% 1.60% PPI - Y/Y Change -5.90% -5.80% -5.90% China's CPI inflation accelerated to 1.6% in the year ...

Four steps up, four steps down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
Is the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) just toying with monetary policy or what? This is the feeling one gets when one looks at the history of the RBNZ's adjustments to its official cash rate target over the past few years. Yesterday's decision by ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... - although there's still a slim chance it won't... depending on the data - November payrolls (reported on 4 December) and CPI (out on the 15th). It's as certain as sure that the Bank of England (BOE) would remain in the sidelines until at least the second ...

Chill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
"Chill out!" Although it could also apply, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chief Glenn Stevens wasn't advising Russian President Vladimir Putin against having Turkey for Thanksgiving in retaliation for Turkey's - the country - downing of a Russian warplane ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
It appears that for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) it's not a case of "be careful what you wish for..." and positive thinking for it's not working positively on its economy. Despite repeating the mantra that the economy continue to recover moderately and that ...