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UK business leads BTIM inflows

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... domestic for our domestic income products. "Our European equities funds found favour with investors as European central banks adopted quantitative easing; an ongoing appetite for yield underpinned good flows into our domestic funds; and our global funds ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... promise reform, but it is more difficult to act." A winner amid Asia deflation Falls in energy prices and Asia's central banks' links with the US Federal Reserve are sending deflationary winds to the region. Lawson noted that countries such as India ...

Retirees 'much worse' off: RBA

JASON CADDEN FOR AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... as record low interest rates force them to take on riskier investments, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says. Central banks around the world have lowered their interest rates to stimulate their economies, causing yields on safe investments such as ...

No inflation but no growth either: Janus Capital

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... seen in developed countries since the financial crisis," he said. "We're in the middle of a great experiment where central banks are using up every tool they have to generate growth. "We believe that at some point bond markets will sell-off and having ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... 2008, every central bank was cutting rates. Now, for the first time in last five years, we're going to see different central banks doing different things," he explained. He added that this scenario "could be scary, but it can also be seen as an opportunity." ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... as their major source of income, prefer higher inflation. The issue with aging populations and inflation is that central banks will try to fight the secular trend to lower inflation, focused as they are on driving inflation to 'target levels'. "From ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... diverging globally and the US Federal Reserve is gearing up for its first rate rise since 2006. The firm says the central banks of Europe and Japan are pushing the monetary accelerator while commodities exporters such as Canada and Australia are cutting ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... corporates or sovereigns. A complicating factor here is that the rise in US interest rates looks set to occur while the central banks of Japan and Europe are continuing an aggressive easing of monetary policy via balance sheet measures. The combined ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... A£75 billion and the Fed's still re-investing the proceeds of its maturing securities - lift off or not. And those central banks that aren't expanding their balance sheets... they've made (are making) money cheaper to spend money to make money. China's ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... night as low interest rates continue to push investors towards shares. Investors also were gaining confidence with central banks, in the US especially and Australia, pursuing growth at all costs, said IG market strategist Stan Shamu. "Investors are quite ...