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Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... appreciating US dollar have resulted in an outflow of capital from emerging economies and are weakening their currencies. Monetary and fiscal stimulus is being withdrawn progressively in the OECD area." "The shakier outlook in 2019 reflects deteriorating ...

Melbourne boutique hires deputy CIO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... expand its global investment capabilities. In her most recent role, Samranvedhya was a portfolio manager for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority where she specialised in rates and cross-country bond allocation for about eight years. Her expertise is in ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... emerging markets, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But the greatest threat of them all is the Fed and its effort to bring monetary policy back to normality, that is, reducing system-wide liquidity. We only have to look back at the GFC and Grexit and Japanese ...

Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... by only one to three times (at 25 bps each) before it hit neutral and it's job is done - the Goldilocks state of monetary, neither accommodative nor restrictive. An essay on "The Neutral Rate of Interest" by Dallas Fed president Robert Kaplan (published ...

AFCA creates small businesses ombudsman role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... disputes," she said. AFCA chief ombudsman and chief executive David Locke said: "With the arrival of AFCA, and the increase in monetary limits, many small business complaints will now be covered by an external dispute resolution scheme for the very first ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... to keep up with the metaphor, flattening the tyres of global growth. There's the Fed's determination to return monetary policy back to normality - that's sending emerging markets (currencies and equity markets) in a tailspin - there's ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
When the Bank of England's (BOE) Monetary Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on the 2nd of August, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying, "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you ...

One-stop complaints shop opens

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... banks, credit providers, insurance companies or superannuation funds," he said. "AFCA will have significantly higher monetary limits and compensation caps than were available under the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) and Credit and Investments Ombudsman ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... lost in coming months." Fortunately for the ECB, it placed a caveat on its forward guidance when it issued its October monetary policy statement. "Regarding non-standard monetary policy measures, the Governing Council will continue to make net purchases ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) starts its two-day monetary policy meeting today and it's not about to give financial markets a Halloween spook when it announces the policy board's decision tomorrow. Monetary policy settings will remain unchanged - ...