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Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... lesser safe-haven purchases) in the revival of global economic activity. This confidence is backed by assurances from central banks and governments around the world to keep monetary policy and fiscal policy accommodative until the economic recovery becomes ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ keeps policy steady on unsteady outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... maximum of $100 billion by June 2022, and the existing Funding for Lending Programme (FLP) conditions. While the New Zealand central bank cited the improvement in the global economic outlook - and the attendant benefit the country gets from rising commodity ...

Super fund liquidity could be better: RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... liquidity pressures throughout 2020, particularly the impact of the early release of superannuation scheme. However, the central bank said there is still room for improvement. With APRA having already called on funds to reassess their liquidity management ...

Amundi revamps climate fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... corporate clients division & ESG Jean-Jacques Barberis said within the Paris Agreement the concept of a fair transition is central to net-zero economies. "There will be no transition if it is not socially acceptable. The social dimension of the transition ...

Super funds need to get on board with crypto: Carnegie

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... 20-year-olds. It's not a particularly comfortable place to be," he said. "But it's been made easy by the fact that central banks all around the world have just been printing so much money and borrowing so much. Yes, people can argue that there ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... this year. Never mind the recent back up in bond yields due to rising inflation expectations. This is because most major central banks, led by the Fed, deem near-term inflationary pressures only transitory while at the same time emphasising their commitment ...

Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... year-to-date -- and the VStoxx index dropped to a reading of 16.7 points - down 33% year-to-date - just as the European Central Bank (ECB) released the minutes of its 11 March of meeting detailing the Governing Council's concern over the regions' ...

Junk insurance lands Westpac in court

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
... consumers. In addition to Westpac, ASIC announced last year that $160 million of the remediation pool came from NZ, Australian Central Credit Union, Bank of Queensland, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Citigroup, Commonwealth Bank, Credit Union Australia ...

Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... 2024 at the earliest." This is RBA governor Philip Lowe's promise to us, Australians all, at the conclusion of the central bank's board meeting on April 6 when it decided to keep current policy settings unchanged - official cash rate at 0.1% ...

ASIC cracks down on binary options

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... occurrence or non-occurrence of a specified event in a defined timeframe. For example, a binary option might pay out if a central bank lowers interest rates or the price of goal hits a certain level within a certain timeframe. There is also counterparty ...