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Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Japan must look to a combination of fiscal and monetary policy if it wishes to achieve the structural reform as set out in the third arrow of Abenomics, according to QIC Shocking global markets with the announcement of negative cash rates in late January ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... 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 bond prices rising further still. "The bull case for global ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... Disappointing Japanese economic growth figures have all but cemented expectations for more policy easing from the Bank of Japan (BOJ) come September. Preliminary estimates showed that real GDP produced no growth in the three months to June. This is a ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... He's betting on gold and gold miners. Bond market king Bill Gross echoes Gundlach view, "If we see fiscal stimulation in Japan China and ultimately the US after the election, I think we should be investing in real assets as opposed to financial assets". ...

Morphic fund added to wraps

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... in that index," Slater said. Another consistent outperformer for the fund has been Tokyo property developer Open House. "Japan has been out of fashion for so long after its awful 1980s property bubble, but Tokyo has been growing steadily at the expense ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... flagged the easing in the home lending market as among its reasons for lowering the official cash rate earlier this month. Japan machinery orders At last, some rare good news out of Japan. Machinery orders jumped by 8.3% in the month of June - the first ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... year to July following a 2.6% drop in the previous month. The producer price index had been in deflation since March 2012. Japan machine tool orders A 19.6% year-on-year drop in Japanese machine tool orders in July marked a full year that this indicator ...

Colonial First State adds global equity capability

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... equity markets. It uses the same investment insight as T. Rowe Price's Global Equity Fund (Hedged and Unhedged) and Asia ex-Japan Fund, which are currently available to Australian retail investors. It has raised over $1.6 billion from Australian clients ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... stoked speculations that the Fed could raise interest rates as early as next month. This was not the case for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - which given deteriorating fundamentals have to keep on running just to stay still. It jumped the gun, announcing an ...

AMP Capital names new chair

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... Strategy&) where she led the financial services practice in global markets and was the executive chairman of Booz & Company (Japan) Inc. Clark said Wallace's appointment follows a well-considered and disciplined transition. "After joining the AMP Capital ...