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Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... hard commodities such as gold provide a safer haven. Explanation two. Because of this distrust for the US currency, central banks are now beginning to stock up on gold as part of their reserves. India, for instance, made the headlines in October 2012 ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... Aussie. Too, a Grexit would put the entire euro experiment - and the euro as reserve currency -- at risk prompting central banks to dump euros and buy a triple-A rated currency like the dollar-A. It could be that the A$ has re-asserted its positive correlation ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... around, even when the central bank has no new signal to send, and static is all there is." Gov Glenn was referring to central banks' "careful utterances" back then, but his statement also applies to the data - economic stats and surveys - just as the ...

Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... property price growth over the past four quarters." On the topic of monetary policy developments, the report said the central banks in Australia, Canada and Norway eased "as inflation declined along with commodity prices, even though core inflation remained ...

Fund manager fees too high: David Neal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... moving out along the risk curve, taking more and more risk to stretch for higher returns. Indeed this is exactly what central banks want us to do. "The issue for the investor of course is that if you think these long-term returns are not normal, then ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... monetary policy to achieve its macroeconomic objectives". The fact is that the RBA just cannot compete with QE-ing central banks. Is Ben suggesting what I think he's suggesting? "I'm pretty confident [quantitative easing programs] have been effective ...

Forget Australia, head stateside for property yield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... traditionally one of the highest dividend payers in the world, has benefited from a global search for yield, as central banks elsewhere lowered rates and undertook major quantitative easing (QE) programs. "The REITS sector, with its traditionally high ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... bonds. But institutions are not recycling that cash back into the real economy and that's one of the big issues. Central banks are putting liquidity into a system which will not translate into economic activity unless it's turned into credit. But then ...

Falling cash rate puts gold in 'sweet spot'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... Council revealed that in 2014 central bank gold purchases hit nearly 500 tones. "In the last 50 years, only once have central banks bought more gold than they did last year," Eliseo explained. At the same time, cash rates globally are at an all-time ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... are just in the early stages of their QE programmes, the PBOC's gearing up on expansionary policies and many other central banks around the globe are in easy/easing policy mode - would reignite the US dollar rocket that, in turn, would turn the US Federal ...