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Lack of scaleability curbs hedge fund appeal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... hedge funds, or associated alternatives strategies, offer - something made even more crucial given how the Quantitative Easing programs in the US have distorted the normal dynamics of the global fixed interest markets. "There is still a profound need ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... power. Yes Virginia, we all know why... that all too familiar, it's gotten so bad that more money is coming. "Quantitative easing; zero interest rate policy (ZIRP); quantitative and qualitative easing; "quantitative and qualitative easing with a negative ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... normalisation at best. At worst, Bridgewater Associate Ray Dalio thinks the Fed's next move would be to bring back quantitative easing. This is bad because it would highlight the Fed's misreading of the economy and therefore, put into question its credibility. ...

Super fund appetite for property funding up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... institutions in this type of strategy." As returns in other yield generating assets have been suppressed by quantitative easing, Super funds have broadened their horizons in the search for returns. At the same time, Schwartz said new investors are stepping ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... concerning as this eventuated amidst a backdrop of rising company profits aided by the BOJ's qualitative and quantitative easing policy (QQE) that depreciated the Japanese yen vis-A -vis its competition. Business investment dropped by 1.3% in the three ...

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... that does not like uncertainty and that is anxious to test the effects of the hike in a country that has left quantitative easing behind. With some predicting that rates will raise gradually and to a lower point than what was expected initially, the ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... If the Fed continues to delay lift-off, they'll be the ones forced to act to increase the amount of their quantitative easing programmes, to cheapen their currencies to lift growth and inflation. The same goes for the RBA.

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... founder of the world's largest hedge fund, is predicting that the Federal Reserve will launch a fresh round of quantitative easing rather than tightening at its coming policy meeting in September." Sounds familiarly like the opening line of my 21 August ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... will increase are the "normalisation" of monetary policy following the US Federal Reserve tapering of its quantitative easing programs. Other drivers are investors' demand for higher compensation to counter illiquidity caused by increased regulation ...