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India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... rates unchanged - repo rate at 6.0% and reverse repo rate at 5.75% - following its 4 October policy meeting. Financial markets widely expected the move and followed the RBI's 25 basis point reductions in the repo and reverse repo rates at its 2 August ...

Transparency to the max

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... the policy meetings held by the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. There appears to be no fear in the financial markets these days. Heck, the VIX index even closed lower to a reading of 9.59 - down by 0.8% on Friday and down 5.7% over the week. ...

Hastings names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... appointed to the Hastings board in July 2016 and brings 30 years' experience in Australian and international financial markets. In addition to having served as chief financial officer of Westpac's institutional bank, Winder was previously international ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... or less what markets had been expecting and were positioned for all along. So much so that response from the financial markets could be put down to just another ordinary day on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index lifted just 0.1%; the US dollar index dipped ...

China slows to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... from a year earlier." Not only that, the disappointing set of China growth stats did little to the country's financial markets. The Shanghai Composite index and the yuan/$US exchange rate dipped by 0.4% on the day the data were released (but these could ...

AZ Sestante grows fund list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... aims to outperform the cash rate before fees and keeps volatility less than 4%; it has a low correlation to the financial markets over a rolling one-year period. The fund invests in the AZ Multi Asset Institutional Macro Dynamic Trading Fund as the underlying ...

Euro strength is a source of weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... autumn. It has no other choice for the programme is set to run only until the end of December this year. But while financial markets widely a schedule (at the very least) of a QE unwind, note that the ECB's missive is that €60 billion monthly asset ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... having hardly anything to lose, stick and stones may break Kim's bones but sanctions would only hurt a little. Financial markets are right to not be alarmed for we've seen this scary movie one too many times before. It even provided a nice buying opportunity. ...

Future Fund expected to grow to $200bn

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... still have quite substantial quantitative easing in place," Costello said. "The biggest thing which will affect financial markets over coming years is as interest rates are adjusted towards more normative levels. This has been flagged well in advance ...

IRESS announces senior leadership restructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
A sweep of global leadership changes at IRESS will see the departure of its Sydney-based global head of financial markets and its chief operating officer. As part of a global strategy to drive continued growth and ensure alignment to its long-term goals ...