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Fund managers driven to alternatives: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... modest compared with peers, but this allocation is likely to grow as the group plans to expand its unlisted alternatives programme over the next 12 months." The report found that managers like CFS, Pendal and MLC most often opt for alternative investments ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... unchanged at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.50% respectively." - and "will continue to make net purchases under its asset purchase programme (APP) at a monthly pace of €20 billion," the ECB said....and steady it will be for the rest of 2020. "The Governing Council ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... respectively," the ECB said "On 1 November net purchases were restarted under the Governing Council's asset purchase programme (APP) at a monthly pace of €20 billion." "The Governing Council intends to continue reinvesting, in full, the principal ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... activity since April 2011". Yes, Samranvedhya, 'twas Super Mario's negative interest rate policy and asset purchase programme that helped the Eurozone recover its growth momentum, so much so that the ECB decided to end its QE programme on 31 ...

Chief economist update: Weaker yen strengthening Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... deposit facility by 10 basis points to -0.50% and announced it would "restart net purchases under its asset purchase programme (APP) at a monthly pace of €20 billion as from 1 November". The yen's depreciation comes at a time when the Jibun Bank ...

TCorp launches new bond

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... has already been approved by the NSW Government. It is the second bond to be issued under the NSW Sustainability Bond Programme after the Green Bond was released a year ago. TCorp chief executive David Deverall said: "We are helping the NSW Government ...

Chief economist update: The yen to dictate if BOJ turns words into action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... the deposit facility by 10 basis points to -0.5% and announcement to "restart net purchases under its asset purchase programme (APP) at a monthly pace of €20 billion as from November 1." The US dollar has appreciated by 3.8% versus the Japanese yen ...

Chief economist update: Arrivederci Signor Draghi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... adjustments to the forward guidance on the key ECB interest rates, (iii) the restart of net purchases under the asset purchase programme (APP), (iv) modifications to the modalities of the new series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... adjustments to the forward guidance on the key ECB interest rates, (iii) the restart of net purchases under the asset purchase programme (APP), (iv) modifications to the modalities of the new series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ needs to run faster to stay in the running

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... same month - lowered the deposit rate by 10 bps to -0.50%; announced that it will be re-starting its asset purchase programme at a monthly pace of €20 billion from 1 November; and forward-guided that "remain at their present or lower levels until we ...