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Chief economist update: Time for a Keynes comeback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... Australian government to ditch its obsession with a budget surplus months ago. Likewise, the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and our very own Reserve Bank of Australia, among others, have been calling on their "fiscal" ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... Reserve has just cut interest rates a second time just at its 17-18 September FOMC meeting just hours before and the European Central Bank (ECB) - when they met on the 12th of the same month - lowered the deposit rate by 10 bps to -0.50%; announced that ...

Global manager launches European infrastructure fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
A $222 billion global asset manager will launch a third diversified European infrastructure fund. First Sentier Investors - formerly known as Colonial First State Global Asset Management - will launch its third European Diversified Infrastructure Fund ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
Financial Standard already said its piece several days before the European Central Bank's (ECB) September 12 meeting, concluding that: "Super Mario would want to go out with a bang (his last month in office) and do "whatever it takes" to mitigate ...

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... times for Deutschland and it calls for desperate measures. It can't do anything anymore about monetary policy, the European Central Bank controls interest rates (currently at zero, it ended QE in December 2018) nor the exchange rate, no more deutschmarks ...

Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... entered "very strange and uncharted economic times", typified by the issuance of bonds with negative coupons by several European countries. Meanwhile, global debt sits at 225% of GDP at USD$184 trillion and the RBA cash rate is at a record low of 1%. ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... build-up of domestic price pressures, and, thus, headline inflation developments over the medium term." This was what European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi told his audience (and the world) at his press conference straight after the ECB's ...

Whitehelm launches infrastructure fund locally

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... were seeking defence against the risks to their equity portfolios given the current market volatility. Net of fees, the European version has outperformed its OECD CPI + 5% benchmark since inception in May 2016 by 4.8% per annum. Whitehelm said the fund ...

Chief economist update: The fear of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... on and so forth, an event horizon if you will - most, if not all, of these scares thought of when Britain leaves the European Union could turn out just that, scares. Just like the Y2K bug, all involved are or have already made contingency plans for this ...

M&G sets up shop down under

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... base has traditionally sought our international public credit expertise, and now we're seeing significant interest in European private debt and infrastructure investments, too." According to its data, M&G has $2 billion in real estate under management ...