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The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
Halloween 2017 may have produced some palpitations as kids (and the kids at heart) went trick or treating, but for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) 'twas a fairly ho-hum event. At the conclusion of its 30-31 October policy meeting, the Japanese central served ...

Active the best way forward for super: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
An Australian investment consultant and research specialist is further endorsing that superannuation fund trustees adopt active management in the best interests of members. Peterson Research Institute founder and director John Peterson issued a media ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
"Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, And I say it's all right..." - The Beatles The rally that propelled the Nikkei-225 index to its highest level last week lingers. On 11 October, Japan's benchmark equity market index rose by a mere 0.28% but its ...

ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
"If we manage to put the unconventional tools back into the box when the time comes, we will be able to claim that the ECB successfully achieved its objective. And in my view, this time has come. We need to discuss how to exit from our unconventional ...

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Perhaps the Reserve Bank of India was just following its former colonial master. For similar to the Bank of England (BOE) - it cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.25% in August 2016 to head off the potential negative fall-out from Brexit win ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump remains the stuff of headlines going into and since he won the 8 November 2016 US presidential election. Reports abound about Trump versus Kim, Trump versus NATO, Trump versus the NFL, Trump versus Alec Baldwin and ...

Financial services employees want digital strategy input: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
Financial services' rapid deployment of intelligent customer-facing technologies are "existentially threatening" to a majority of the sector's employees, latest research shows. Three quarters (76%) of the 1390 respondents in a Microsoft survey believe ...

The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
They were just hours apart but the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan's monetary policy decisions were as wide as their geographic locations, perhaps wider. While both central banks kept existing policies unchanged at their September meetings ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
Well that was a bit of an anti-climax, wasn't it? The much-awaited US Federal Reserve's 19-20 September FOMC meeting produced little, if any, surprises. Interest rates were kept on hold this month but will be lifted by another 25 basis points to 1.5% ...

Lower returns but higher balances for SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... a 2.9% per annum return for APRA regulated superannuation funds over the same period," the report reads. The findings predict two-thirds of SMSF trustees can remain confident (with 80% certainty) that they are well placed to achieve the ASFA standard ...