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I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... joblessness but too easy and it pushes prices higher. Tight monetary settings reduce inflationary pressures but too tight and it risks damping economic activity that results in higher unemployment. The RBA's pro-active stance towards monetary policy ...

Greek tragedy overwhelms Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... fiscal discipline on a country - any country. Greece sinking alone would not be a worry but it becomes a tragedy when it risks taking many of the bigger European Union members down with it. The Financial Times notes that, "The Greek crisis is a matter ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... packages too fast and the global economic recovery could sputter and fail. Keep the stimulus packages in place too long and it risks awaking the inflation monster. It may well be that the shape of future financial market performance would be determined ...

Patersons and Davies open fixed income shop

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
Patersons Securities has launched a specialist fixed income and hybrid securities joint venture with Bryan Davies, former chief executive and co-founder at Yellow Brick Road. The Sydney-based division, Davies & Partners, is half owned by Patersons Securities ...

APRA calls for IT risk submissions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... Once APRA receives submissions the regulator expects to issue a final version of the PPG later in the year. Examples of IT risks can be found across the wealth management industry. In December last year, a Sydney based super fund issued a statement noting ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
UK pension funds are increasingly diversifying into hedge funds, global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) and active currency strategies, according to a Mercer survey. The firm's European Asset Allocation Survey found UK pension fund allocations to equity ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... problem of these financial companies. Should the bad bank pay too high a price for toxic assets, it pays too high a price. It risks holding them in its vault for a very long time or it may have to write them off eventually -- wasting taxpayers' money ...

Liquidity jitters raise income yield

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
The running yield across Putnam's income funds has trebled from less than 1 per cent above cash to more than 3 per cent above cash and, according to the fund manager, the fixed income market is throwing up opportunities it hasn't seen in 20 years. "Many ...

Markets still at risk: Tagliaferro

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
One of the country's leading fund managers, Anton Tagliaferro, is the latest stockmarket expert to voice his concerns about investor attitude towards risk and observed that today's investors are less risk-aware compared to their predecessors. Tagliaferro ...

QIC appoints new beta manager

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
QIC has appointed Bill Prendergast to the new position of Global Fixed Interest Beta Manager. Prendergast will manage QIC's global fixed income beta portfolios, including an inflation-linked bond mandate for QSuper. Prior to joining QIC, Bill spent ...