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Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... FOMC participants' longer-term outlook "potential output growth, the natural unemployment rate, and the neutral policy interest rate (the federal funds rate)" have been shifting "for some years now". Bernanke's table showed that in 2012 the FOMC projected ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... spending - don't call it helicopter money; don't talk about 0 coupon bonds with non-redeemable. Buy the bonds but at 0 interest rate but with a clear and expressed view that you don't intend to redeem these bonds at all until the economy is on a sound ...

IFM and QIC to compete for Port of Melbourne

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... considering potential cross-ownership interests and vertical relationships. IFM Investors is proposing to acquire a 50% to 55% interest in the port, combined with Dutch pension fund manager APG (25-30%), and Macquarie's infrastructure and real assets ...

Austock expands investment menu

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... of investment options on Austock Life's platform to 33. "The menu's expanded indexed range is in response to increased interest and uptake in the passive manager, lower-cost funds space," Austock Life managing director Ross Higgins said. "It also recognises ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... "consistently supportive despite global shocks and uncertainties particularly associated with 'Brexit'; the US election; Fed interest rate policy; and China's efforts to deal with a structurally slowing economy". These have been slightly offset by erosions ...

Link considers Pillar bid

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
Large superannuation administrator Link Group is interested in the New South Wales government's sale of Pillar Administration, and it will now consider whether to participate in the bid process. Link told the ASX that if it decides to progress with ...

UK IFAs increasingly outsourcing to DFMs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
United Kingdom independent financial advisers (IFAs) are increasingly outsourcing investment assets to discretionary fund managers (DFMs) as asset managers start to feel the fee pressure pinch, according to Cerulli Associates' 'Asset Management in the ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
The fear of negative interest rates keeping retail investors out of bond markets isn't just overlooking the defensive role of the asset class within portfolios, it's also leaving a surprisingly healthy return on the table. That's an argument put forward ...

Investors must be ready for grey swans

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... global market uncertainty leads to a growing number of 'grey swan' events, according to IOOF portfolio manager, fixed interest and cash, Juanita Escobar Derived from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's black swan theory - an event that deviates so far from what ...

ASIC bans ex-Macquarie Equities trader

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
ASIC has banned a former representative of Macquarie Equities for five years. Nicholas Kerr worked for Macquarie Equities from 2008 to 2013; during that time, ASIC alleged he engaged in unauthorised discretionary trading on five client accounts, as ...