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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... expected inflationary pressures prompted the Australian central bank to cut interest rates last month, April's "inflation surprise" - CPI inflation quickened to 5.4% in the year to April from 4.8% in March (RBI target 5%) - prevented the RBI from reducing ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
Yippee-kay-yay! 'twas a good week for most major equity markets last week, all were blinking the happy bright and happy colour green....and this, just as we're about to see the end days of May - yes, the month when we're advised to sell and go away....and ...

Fixed income investors turning to Serbia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
Fixed income investors need to focus on new opportunities for return in a low-rate environment, according to T. Rowe Price portfolio manager and head of international fixed income Arif Husain. Speaking at the T. Rowe Price Equities Adviser event in ...

Focus Financial looking for more local partners

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
Having announced their first Australian investment last week, Focus Financial Partners is hoping to partner with more Australian firms who are looking for a partner rather than just an investor. Raijini Kodialam, co-founder and managing director of ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... Trump becoming the presumptive Republican nominee? It's none of the above. It is the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) surprise (well, to about half of the central bank's watchers at least) 25 basis point reduction in the official cash rate to a record ...

Budget big picture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... total tax revenue which doesn't give them much bargaining power at the policy making table. Against these metrics it's no surprise the government has gone after 4% of high end superannuation fund members by introducing a de facto Reasonable Benefit Limit ...

Zurich launches education curriculum

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... new markets in 2016. "The advice landscape is undergoing changes, driven by a range of disruptive forces, so it is no surprise that advisers are scrutinising their own offerings to determine how future proof they are," she said. "Our research reveals ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... purchase programme to starting mid-year "so that the purchases will total SEK 245 billion at the end of 2016". The Riksbank surprise decision was taken in order to reduce the risk of further appreciation in the Swedish krona because the recent upturn ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... to take interest rates deeper into the negative when it next meets later this month - or perhaps make an inter-meeting surprise announcement to stress its determination to bring the yen lower. Bank of America Merrill Lynch thinks the tipping point for ...

RBNZ cuts rates, biased towards further easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
It was unexpected but not a total surprise. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.25% contrary to consensus expectations that the New Zealand central bank will keep interest rates unchanged after this ...