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Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... Still, to this day inflation - headline and core - has gone nowhere near the BOJ's 2% target despite introducing QQE with Yield Curve Control and Negative Interest Rates in 2016. But I digress. While the BOJ upgraded its GDP growth forecasts in its ...

Chief economist update: A date with the RBA in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... expected, the RBA left monetary policy settings unchanged - "including the targets of 10 basis points for the cash rate and the yield on the 3-year Australian government bond, as well as the parameters of the Term Funding Facility and the government ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
Just when we thought Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has tapered sooner-than-later taper expectations, along comes Robert Steven Kaplan -- president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. While the US Federal Reserve was waxing ...

BetaShares launches hybrids ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... bank's maximum weight in the index to 30%. It had 16 constituents as at April 22. "As at 31 March 2021, the gross running yield (i.e. including franking credits) of the index BHYB aims to track was around 3.5% p.a., and the gross yield-to-call was around ...

Pahari to leave AMP amid demerger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
AMP has confirmed Boe Pahari will leave the business as it pursues a demerger of its Private Markets business, after plans to sell to Ares Management fell through. AMP will demerge its $50 billion Private Markets business from AMP Limited and list it ...

Chief economist update: The pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The music has stopped, should we cease dancing? Two consecutive days of losses on Wall Street is a very long time in financial markets so much so that "pundits struggle to explain stocks stumble", according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR). ...

Government debt blows out 420%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... developed world. Hong Kong and South Korea recorded similar debt-to-GDP levels. Sivapalan said Australia's 0.76% effective yield on its bonds on issue is much higher than for comparable countries because the economy has been performing strongly. ...

Multi-boutique launches farmland fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Warakirri Asset Management has launched a new fund, seeded by a European pension fund, providing domestic and offshore institutional investors with exposure to Australian agricultural property. The new Warakirri Farmland Fund will buy, develop and own ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
The coronavirus optimism that prevailed over the dying weeks of 2020 and into the first quarter of this year has been replaced by concerns over the resurgence in infections - in Europe, India, Japan, South Korea and lately, the US, among others - caused ...

Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... on April 6 when it decided to keep current policy settings unchanged - official cash rate at 0.1%; 3-year government bond yield target at 0.1%; and "the parameters of the Term Funding Facility and the government bond purchase program". For sure and for ...