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Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... This is in line with the IMF's World Economic Outlook report update last month which stated that, "With buoyant financial markets and a long-awaited cyclical recovery in manufacturing and trade under way, world growth is projected to rise from 3.1 percent ...

Oxford University assisting Aussie advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... company of the University of Oxford founded in 2002, and offers a range of risk profiling solutions for the financial markets, including a decumulation specific risk profiler focused on investors seeking to draw-down from investments rather than grow ...

Markets ignoring climate crisis: Hewson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... dedicated climate risk management staff," Hewson said. "It's not about scale. It's about commitment. And because financial markets don't really understand risk - or at least don't price it properly - not a lot gets done. But over time you'll see trustees ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... on reintroducing the Franc. (Bloomberg). She's Trump and Brexit put together. Certainly, the best outcome for financial markets is for a Macron win on the 7 May as this would preserve the status quo, more or less. The status quo of a strengthening French ...

Desperately seeking workers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... that "the process [of shrinking the balance sheet] could begin relatively soon" and not later this year, as financial markets speculated when the minutes of the 14-15 March FOMC meeting was released. The Beige Book report showed that economic activity ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... desired by the Americans...We will take the toughest counteraction against the provocateurs." In spite of this, financial markets' reaction have been relatively sanguine - the VIX index (the "fear gauge) even dropped by 8.2% overnight to a reading of ...

RBA dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... when Governor Philip Lowe and his team deliberate on what to do with the country's monetary policy settings. Financial markets expect the Australian central bank to announce no change in interest rates this month. Yes, there's nothing remotely interesting ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... achieve its objective, the Governing Council will act by using all the instruments available within its mandate." Financial markets took this as guidance that the ECB would not only taper but also raise interest rates as soon as the first quarter of ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
It could have been triggered by anything imaginable under the sun, but the financial markets' correction - due to Trump's repeal/replace Obamacare failure - should be seen as that, one that "corrects" overvalued levels that have run ahead of fundamentals. ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... both have been improving over the oh so many years that Obamacare had been in existence. The problem is that financial markets and economic agents have tied the repeal of Obamacare to progress in Trump's pro-growth agenda. The disappointment was palpable. ...