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Super funds hungry for offshore assets: NAB

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... unlisted, offshore assets in search of superior returns over the next two years and they are willing to take on more currency exposure risk in the process. This is according to NAB's Superannuation FX Survey, which found that 72% of super funds plan ...

Board addition strengthens strategic relationship

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... saw MS&AD increase its Challenger shareholding to over 15% of issued capital and Challenger commenced reinsurance of US currency annuities issued by Mitsui Sumitomo Primary Life. Kobayashi is director and managing executive officer (corporate planning ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... inverted yield curve was dismissed as being due to "technical factors such as a flight to quality or global economic or currency situations that trigger demand for long-term bonds", according to The Independent, before the US recession of 2001. Before ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... strong tailwind into the Japanese yen's sails. So much so, that since the BOJ's last board meeting, the Japanese currency has appreciated by 2.2% to ¥106.28 versus an appreciating US dollar (+0.3% since and +2.1 ytd, based on Bloomberg's ...

SSGA global equity beta head retires, promotes two

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... the firm in August 2000 and was a member of the global portfolio strategy team until 2018, covering both equities and currency, and serving as the head of portfolio strategists for the Asia Pacific region. Alex King takes on the role of head of global ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... discounting negative interest rates and/or quantitative easing. While most are still speculating over the "prospect" of a currency war, in my books it's well and truly underway with many central banks now lowering their target interest rates to cheapen ...

Chief economist update: The UK is not OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... 1.2%. While the FTSE-100 index continues to produce a positive return (7.7%) this year-to-date - supported by the weak currency - it has fallen by 5.6% from its 2019 high, recorded a few days after Boris Johnson assumed office as UK Prime Minister on ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... all three (more or less) gave similar rationales for their policy decisions - trade tensions, global slowdown, relative currency appreciation - all putting downward pressure on their domestic economic growth and inflation. "The members discussed the ...

Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
Trump's latest tat (branding Beijing a currency manipulator) for China's tit (allowing the yuan to fall below the psychological threshold of CNY7.0/US$1) highlights just how determined the US president is to win the trade war. Yes Virginia ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... be in Beijing have controlled the currency's exchange rate for fear of being officially branded by America as a "currency manipulator" and/or capital outflows that could lead to increased selling pressure on the yuan. But as we learned in Economics ...