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Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... sampling of its members' responses: Anxiety by investors has people looking for safety. Something is askew. Probably the easy money policy. It is being caused by the flight to safety due to headline news in Europe, the South China Sea, the Middle East ...

Easy CBs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... Street was all about. There was nothing new in the Fed minutes that were released overnight. Monetary policy will remain easy because the FOMC does not "face a trade-off between its employment and inflation objectives..." - low inflation enables it to ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
With growth like this what's a central banker to do? It might have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... I can do better... If the Fed, BOJ, ECB and PBOC could do it - forward guiding markets that monetary policy would remain easy (easier next month in the case of the ECB) - why couldn't the BOE? Yes it could! By most indications, the Bank of England (BOE) ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... are a great nation and now is our chance to be even better. We know that for some in the community this Budget will not be easy. But this Budget is not about self-interest. This Budget is about the national interest. The Government's Economic Action ...

Industry prepares for Abbott's first budget

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... changes to superannuation. At a doorstop interview Treasurer Joe Hockey echoed the PM's sentiments, saying: "It will be an easy budget to criticise but for the nation it will be an important budget to support." However, Labor's finance spokesman Tony ...

SunGard launches hedge fund risk reporting service

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... reports. Crucial therefore is a comprehensive risk management solution that is not only sophisticated and rigorous but also easy to use and highly cost-effective," SunGard head of buy-side research Laurence Wormald said. "Hedge360 Risk Reporting Service ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... paratroopers." While he was ostensibly the leader, he says he soon learnt that he needed to win the respect of his men. Was that easy? "The key to success is that you recognise you are the servant of the people you lead. You're the last person to eat ...

New entrants drive growth in global equities sector

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... players. Lonsec senior investment analyst Rui Fernandes said that when you consider Australia's investment landscape it is easy to understand why there are more managers offering more products. "Australia has a large and growing pool of assets and the ...

IOSCO recommends improved disclosure for direct products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... cover product costs, benefits, risks and underlying methodologies and structures; that the documents should be clear and easy to read; that the information contained should be standardised and facilitate product comparisons; and that the information ...