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No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... non-productive assets such as housing, equities and bonds, potentially creating bubbles in these markets. Likewise, quantitative easing performed by certain central banks has had a comparable unintended result. According to Taylor, banks across Europe ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... it's still too early to judge the success or failure of the BOJ's "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"" announced this month, the on-going strength in the Japanese yen ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... shares rocketing by 7.0% after the BOJ gifted the markets with a "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control" alongside not taking interest rates further down into the negative. ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... Kuroda delivered the initial cheer with its announcement of a "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"" (https://www.boj.or.jp/en/announcements/release_2016/k160921a.pdf) ...

IFM active equity team wins first mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... active equities Lachlan Davis and head of research Mark McClatchey. The new team, which has extensive experience in quantitative and fundamental investment management in Australia and Asia, has established three key products - Australian Core Equities ...

Regal named best Australian hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... raised by the hedge fund industry since the first event in 2002. The finalists were selected upon by a combination of quantitative and qualitative factors agreed by the following panel of judges: Simon Ibbetson (chair) from 358 Pty Ltd., Matthew Jeremy ...

Watershed SMA makes the right calls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  SUNDAY, 11 SEP 2016
... twelve months we have taken hedged positions in both the European and Japanese markets with the view that whilst the quantitative easing programs in these regions would stimulate their equity markets it would equally see their respective currencies weaken ...

Negative rates can generate positive returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... investment portfolio that delivers positive returns while navigating negative interest rates. PIMCO vice president and quantitative research analyst Laura Ryan showed that in some circumstances negative yields can be good for bonds. She demonstrated ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... terms). The annualised return of global fixed income over the past five years has been 7.75%. Grow says the return of quantitative easing in the UK in the wake of the Brexit vote and the Bank of Japan's review of its own monetary policy mean a case can ...

Rate cut would do little to help economy: WAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... point I would prefer to see the RBA sit tight." Kirkham notes there has been a global realisation of the overuse of quantitative easing (QE) as a number of economies come to the extreme point of QE and deep negative territory, highlighting a need for ...