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Fintech expands with eight new appointments

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... Round-ups product. "Moneysoft has grown rapidly over the past 24 months, which has allowed us to make this significant reinvestment in the business," Malekas said. "This will support our growth, and more importantly the growth of our customers, by continuing ...

The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
They were just hours apart but the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan's monetary policy decisions were as wide as their geographic locations, perhaps wider. While both central banks kept existing policies unchanged at their September meetings ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... becomes 2018. Balance sheet normalisation will start next month - it will withdraw US$10 billion monthly from its reinvestment of maturing securities - and three more rate hikes will occur in 2018. The decision and the forward guidance were more or less ...

Annuity sales boost Challenger results

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
Challenger's life segment continued to deliver in the 12 months to June as a result of the annuity provider diversifying its product range and expanding in to partnerships outside of Australia. The life business reported sales of $5 billion underpinned ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
The US Federal Reserve took another step towards policy normalisation at its June FOMC meeting - announcing another 25 basis point lift in the fed funds rate from one to 1.25% (the second this year) while at the same time giving notice that it would ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... saw one. Not only that, there's also a Plan B, just in case. "However, the Committee would be prepared to resume reinvestment of principal payments received on securities held by the Federal Reserve if a material deterioration in the economic outlook ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... the Fed will or will not do), the minutes also provided greater clarification on what the Fed's doing about its 'reinvestment policy". "...the Committee would announce a set of gradually increasing caps, or limits, on the dollar amounts of Treasury and ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... anticipated that gradual increases in the federal funds rate would continue and judged that a change to the committee's reinvestment policy would likely be appropriate later this year." Wall Street's sanguine reaction to this could be because of comments ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... minutes were released and... Wall Street saw that it wasn't good. This is because while the Fed's reference to the reinvestment of principal payments from its portfolio holdings was largely innocuous in its 15 March policy statement: "The Committee is ...

Low rates signify opportunity for reinvesting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Australia should start thinking about historically low rates as an opportunity for reinvestment, according to Vanguard principal and head of investments, Vanguard Asia Pacific Rodney Comegys. Addressing the Vanguard ETFs in Practice forum in Sydney ...