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Aussies to lose $100m to fraudsters

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... Vanguard was recently targeted by scammers, who bought advertisements on search engines for terms relating to "bond or high yield investments". When investors click on the ad link, they are taken to a fake investment comparison website with a name like ...

Vanguard targeted in bond fund scam

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... bond funds. The asset manager said scammers are buying advertisements on search engines for terms relating to "bond or high yield investments". When a person clicks on the ad link, they are taken to a fake investment comparison website with a name like ...

Chief economist update: Too much of a good thing could be a bad thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
Healthier consumers are happier consumers are spending consumers. US consumer confidence has rebounded to its highest level since the onset of the pandemic in America in March last year. This is hardly surprising with cases of coronavirus infections ...

Lowy-backed Assembly acquires childcare centres

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... Childcare has proven to be a highly resilient asset class in the face of economic turbulence and offers good value in a low-yield macroenvironment," Assembly head of transactions Tim Meurer said. "By comparison, the direction of other asset classes such ...

Chief economist update: BOJ has no plans to ease easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... at its March meeting - short-term key interest rate at minus 0.1% and the target for the 10-year Japanese government bond yield at around 0%. It also pledged that it "will continue with Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
The monetary and fiscal masters of the US of A fronted the Senate Banking Committee - as required under the March 2020 COVID-19 relief law - singing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. In his testimony, Federal Reserve chair ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
Ho-hum. So much for speculations over the Fed's thoughts and actions, Powell and Co. did what financial markets expected - nothing - at their 16-17 March FOMC meeting. "The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at ...

Citi moves to double wealth business revenues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... clients come to Citi for our global expertise, and access to a wide range of products from traditional fixed income, to high yield fixed income solutions, structured products and more," Chowdhury said. "In today's volatile environment, impacted by both ...

No more easy 6% returns: Fidelity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
Despite the fairly sunny economic outlook, lower investment returns are a reality that institutional investors will have to grapple with, according to Fidelity International. Fidelity International cross asset investment specialist Anthony Doyle said ...

Chief economist update: More manna from UK Treasury

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
... billion." Inflation worries and the consequent spike in US bond yields have lifted sovereign bond yields almost everywhere. The yield on UK gilts have risen to a high of 0.80% this year. This is already 73 percentage points higher than the 0.07% low ...