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Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... with members. Since the GFC, the world has entered "very strange and uncharted economic times", typified by the issuance of bonds with negative coupons by several European countries. Meanwhile, global debt sits at 225% of GDP at USD$184 trillion and ...

BNY Mellon adds to Melbourne team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... debt, where clients include international giants such as McDonalds, General Electric and JP Morgan issuing A$-denominated bonds and local companies such as CSL and Transurban. Mistry worked at Citi in corporate trust sales in the Middle East and North ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... "technical factors such as a flight to quality or global economic or currency situations that trigger demand for long-term bonds", according to The Independent, before the US recession of 2001. Before the 'Great Recession' of 2008, 'El Maestro' ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... Russia and in Argentina). These mounting uncertainties have pushed investors into safe haven assets such as longer-term bonds and currencies like the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen. Ahh yes, the Japanese yen - except for its mini-me trade war with ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... follows the Politburo's plans to boost disposable income and is considering allowing provincial governments to issue more bonds to boost infrastructure investment. Xi's dictatorial power to effect a reversal in economic momentum shouldn't ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... are everywhere! Financial market investors are seeking safety - exiting equity markets and queuing to purchase longer-term bonds (despite their low, and in some, negative yields); the US dollar is up but safehaven currencies such as the Swiss franc and ...

Plato to raise $200 million

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... retirees to live off the income from cash and fixed income" given current 1% RBA cash rates and 10-year Commonwealth Government Bonds trading at a yield below 1%. "Given the recent election result, retirees can continue to bank on receiving franking ...

Chief economist update: Greater than the Great Recession of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... Member Banks are likely to be timid about buying new investments or making loans. If the Reserve authorities buy government bonds in the open market and thereby swell bank reserves, the banks will not put these funds to work but will simply hold reserves. ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... 0.1% since January 2016 and in September of the same year, the BOJ announced: "The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that 10-year JGB yields will remain more or less at the current level (around zero percent)". Safe-haven yen purchases ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... they go? Be afraid, be very afraid. A great number of investors are buying into the relative safety of long-term government bonds despite their dwindling yields, and in the case of the Japanese and Eurozone 10-year government bonds, negative yields - ...