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Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... anticipated". With the IMF's latest guesswork has confirmed that all isn't still well in the world, financial markets are resting easy that that "considerable time" before the Fed starts raising interest rates would remain "considerable" as far as the ...

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... not doing their homework. Even the IMF's warning (which according to reports is the one that did the markets in) that... "Easy financial conditions, and the resulting search for yield, could fuel financial excess. Markets may have underpriced risks by ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... details of asset-backed securities and covered bond purchase programmes" and two "annexes" for 'em along with bullet points for easy digestion: Programmes will last at least two years Will enhance transmission of monetary policy, support provision of ...

Insurers worried about striking balance between claims and price

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... premium increases," AIA Australia's chief executive officer Damien Mu said. "It's important that the industry make it as easy as possible to encourage members to engage with and learn about their insurance."

CommInsure offers alternative to group insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... positive taxation treatment of insurance through super. CommInsure stated: "The Super Payment Method makes it simple and easy for customers to nominate a super fund to pay premiums. CommInsure will send a rollover request directly to the nominated super ...

Hedge fund allocators pick unstable funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... over $5 billion. "That means that between us all we don't have much money in the space where I feel it's likely to be most easy to manage sensibly. That's a problem." He explained that funds with less than $250 million pose the opposite problem for investors. ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... sure... if Japan's potential growth rate is a big fat zero, that is.A Then it really is growing above potential. Normally, it's easy to discern Japan's outlook from the Japanese bond market. Ten-year JGB's are currently trading around 0.56% -- that's ...

Expand PLS to all age pensioners: TAI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
The Pensions Loan Scheme (PLS) for full age pensioners should be extended to all age pensioners who need an easy way to increase their retirement income, said a leading think tank. The Australia Institute (TAI), a progressive think tank based in Canberra ...

Magellan sees "real tensions" in launching ASX-listed fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... which has its own disclosure regime and requirements," Cairns said, speaking at the Bloomberg Summit yesterday. "That is not easy at all," he admitted, and added that "this is a problem that we see here, in the [United] States and everywhere else." He ...

FEATURE: The new financiers of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... into infrastructure assets. But the discussion has tended to focus on equity rather than debt. And the reasons for that are easy to guess: infrastructure debt inhabits a little understood world. There is a lot of money to be made if you have the considerable ...