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Enforceable undertakings are effective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... financial services firm to improve failing compliance. The process is supervised by an external expert and in some instances monetary compensation from the firm is also required. Twenty other Australian regulators rely on EUs. Leading the study, UNSW ...

Chief economist update: Bull markets don't die of old age

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... FOMC's 25-26 September meeting, revealing that it's full speed ahead for the Fed. "With regard to the outlook for monetary policy beyond this meeting, participants generally anticipated that further gradual increases in the target range for the ...

Chief economist update: US bond yield jump made FTSE slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... The FTSE 100 index fell by 0.4% on September 13 - the day when the Bank of England (BOE) met and announced no change in monetary policy settings, keeping the bank rate at 0.75% (after the 25bps lift in August). While the BOE's move was widely expected ...

RBNZ on ice into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... US$0.7422. For sure, one of the major factors afflicting the kiwi dollar/US dollar exchange rate is the divergence in monetary settings and outlook between New Zealand and the United States. One, that's been underscored by the policy decisions of ...

Royal Commission tables life insurance policy questions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... update medical definitions be extended to products other than on-sale products. The Corporations Act, they said, exempts monetary benefits received from life risk insurance products. "Why shouldn't the cap on such benefits continue to reduce to zero?" ...

Three down one to go, then another three in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... little changed, on balance." In addition to this, investors were encouraged by the removal of the phrase, "The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative..." which implied US interest rates have hit their neutral levels - i.e. the level at which ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... Japan's equity market has also benefitted from recent developments pointing to continued stability --in government and monetary policy. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's victory in the just-concluded ruling party leadership vote indicates the continued ...

Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... JP Morgan Asset Management global market strategist Kerry Craig said unless there is assumed to be a large change in monetary or fiscal policy or the regulatory backdrop in the near term, investors will go back to focusing on what important - the health ...

Chief economist update: Little market reaction from BOJ tweak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
It may still be early days but the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) "tweaking" of monetary appears to have done nothing significant for the yen and the Nikkei-225 so far. At the conclusion of its July 30-31 monetary policy meeting - where it kept current monetary ...

The BOE's got no problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 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 August 2, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying: "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect ...