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Volatility divides investors: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... participants. Perhaps the "most confounding variable" facing them is the unprecedented process of unwinding of quantitative easing, the report said. Asset purchase plans instituted by central banks to lower rates and increase the money supply during ...

Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... - voting unanimously to maintain the Bank Rate at 0.50% (which it lifted by 25 bps last November) and the quantitative easing ceilings for gilts and corporate bonds remain at £435 billion and £10 billion, respectively. Needless to say, the BOE is operating ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... while 70% are neutral. Moreover, 35% of APAC respondents believe central banks in the region will move from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening. Investors in the region are most concerned about regulatory challenges both at present and in ...

Future Fund expected to grow to $200bn

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... are extraordinarily low by historical standards, and some areas of the globe still have quite substantial quantitative easing in place," Costello said. "The biggest thing which will affect financial markets over coming years is as interest rates are ...

Passive versus active is crippling: QIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... exploiting desired risks and avoiding undesired ones," King said. "With the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent quantitative easing era as live stress tests, we show that there is value in allocating dynamically across sub-asset classes and that active ...

Multi-asset expectations fall: Zenith

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Investment managers are reducing their return expectation across a broad range of asset classes as quantitative easing and other interventionist policies continue to have an impact on investment markets. Zenith Investment Partners' latest Multi Asset ...

Top boutique in first push for new investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... took in the full market cycle from the top of the bull market, through the GFC and on through the subsequent quantitative easing-led recovery. Backed by an initial investment from their old boss David Paradice, Mitchell and Ng now have complete autonomy ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... non-productive assets such as housing, equities and bonds, potentially creating bubbles in these markets. Likewise, quantitative easing performed by certain central banks has had a comparable unintended result. According to Taylor, banks across Europe ...

Watershed SMA makes the right calls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  SUNDAY, 11 SEP 2016
... months we have taken hedged positions in both the European and Japanese markets with the view that whilst the quantitative easing programs in these regions would stimulate their equity markets it would equally see their respective currencies weaken against ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... annualised return of global fixed income over the past five years has been 7.75%. Grow says the return of quantitative easing in the UK in the wake of the Brexit vote and the Bank of Japan's review of its own monetary policy mean a case can be made for ...