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Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... prompting investors to reduce their allocations to the US and into other economies; shifting monetary policy expectations in Japan and the Eurozone (although still denied by officials) as against the Fed's telegraphed gradual and gentle policy tightening ...

Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... necessary to "achieve the price stability target of 2 percent" and "stays above target in a stable manner". The Bank of Japan (BOJ) couldn't be clearer on its forward guidance following the conclusion of its first Board meeting for 2018 where it kept ...

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... was most recently a senior vice president of Northern Trust Capital Markets, focused on sales and trading in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong and China. Before his three-year tenure at Northern Trust, he was a director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch ...

Citi veteran joins forces with listed equities manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... Citi in 1995 as an internal auditor. Since then he held multiple senior positions there, including head of equities trading Japan, head of equities Japan and most recently chief operating officer, Pan-Asia equities. In his new role, Milton explained ...

Mercer increases Japanese footprint via acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... growing alternative investment needs of Japanese institutional investors. "BFC is a truly client centric firm and one of Japan's successful providers of alternative investment solutions focusing on hedge fund and private equity strategies. They are an ...

Offshore investment vehicles await passport arrival

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... draft legislation read Australia would be able to export its management products to participating countries, which include Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Thailand with "limited additional regulatory requirements." As a subset of the framework, a company ...

International broker enters Aussie market

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... various international markets." Monex Group's entry into the Australian market is part of the company's global expansion. In Japan, Monex was one of the first online broking companies to establish. "We believe that we can differentiate ourselves from ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... deficits in the US." True that and perfectly rational, particularly given the previous day's commotion over the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) announcement that it's trimming its purchases of 10 to 25-year and 25 to 40-year JGBs by ¥10 billion each. And then ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) announcement that it's trimming ¥10 billion off its purchases of 10 to 25-year and 25 to 40-year JGBs sent the Japanese yen 0.5% higher against the US dollar to ¥112.43 after it sparked renewed taper speculations. While Bloomberg ...

Same old same old from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
While the Fed lifted interest rates at its final meet for 2017, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) followed the others - ECB, BOE, SNB - in keeping the status quo this side of the New Year. And like the rest of 'em, it's optimistic over the Japanese economy's ...