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Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... quarter real GDP growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. And we all know, where there's meat... there's a barbecue. This is exactly what Wall Street did overnight ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... was up 0.35 per cent at 9,114.84 points. The Federal Reserve's withdrawal of its vast bond-buying scheme known as quantitative easing (QE), had earlier also hit sentiment across global markets. Stocks in the eurozone's periphery of Athens, Lisbon and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... Industrial Average fell 31.44 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 16,974.31 points after the US Federal Reserve ended its quantitative easing stimulus program but said it would continue to keep its benchmark interest rate low.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... cent, at 5,431.1 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished lower after the US Federal Reserve ended its quantitative easing stimulus program, but said it would continue to keep its benchmark interest rate low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

BTIM expands income and fixed income team

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... three years at Perpetual where he worked closely with both the portfolio management and distribution teams, providing quantitative support, portfolio positioning and commentary to the business and clients. Commenting on the appointment Vimal Gor, head ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... necessary. Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda's soothing words completed the quorum. "We will continue quantitative and qualitative easing until 2% inflation is achieved and maintained in a stable fashion," he said before adding that although ...

Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... reasons. They might not be bothered having an emerging markets small caps strategy, for example." Walsh said Acadian's quantitative approach to investment - what he calls the 'systematic application of good ideas' - brings a great deal of flexibility ...

Unconstrained fixed income funds gaining institutional support

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
As central banks grapple with quantitative easing and markets look towards a period of instability, institutional investors are rethinking traditional fixed income approaches. Henderson Global Investors head of fixed income Phil Apel told Financial ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... commodity cycle. "For instance, 2011 saw the high tide for commodities coincide with strong liquidity flows from quantitative easing. This was ideal for the north-west bloc, with both the Brazilian real and Australian dollar reaching their peak values," ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Industry fund-sponsored organisation SuperFriend has today released detailed quantitative research on mental illness-related claims through group insurance, a project it has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research ...