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Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... euro would have been a simpler and more effective exercise. Then again, the ECB couldn't do so without being branded a currency manipulator. The same reason why Japan had to go through with its own currency depreciation in a roundabout way.

Dynamic approach key to low volatility investing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... sector and by region." Banner added: "Active management is vital to respond to changing volatilities, correlations and currency variations. Portfolio rebalancing is a powerful tool and including some more volatile but uncorrelated stocks helps to reduce ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... because labour mobility is one of the four freedoms (along with capital, goods and services) it signed on in the single currency pact... and so with other euro member states basking in the glow of low joblessness for now. That's the question of when ...

Market wrap Am

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... was seven points higher at 5,531. In company news on Tuesday, OZ Minerals has its annual general meeting in Melbourne. Currency trader OZForex and analytical services group ALS Group both release their full year results. The market on Monday rose, with ...

ASIC bans former Westpac trader

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... 2009 and 2010 and he was in charge of trading on a range of financial products, including foreign exchange and cross currency swaps on behalf of Westpac. An investigation of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found that he entered ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... Mario added an escape clause -- "after seeing Staff projections" - but the latest economic growth update on the single currency region indicates that there is now no escape. Eurozone real GDP growth rose by only 0.2% in the first quarter - half market ...

IOOF awards $115m global equities mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... We believe this strategy with its benchmark agnostic construction, high active share, and its optimisation from an AUD currency perspective, is a great fit for IOOF's multi manager portfolio."

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... speculation that the BOE should lift the Bank Rate soon and with this speculation comes the one-way bet on the British currency. The pound has been pounding both the US dollar and the euro. It's risen by 13.1% against the greenback and 7.2% since the ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... perhaps the baker, the butcher and the candlestick maker has read my musings on this space yesterday (I wish) that the currency wars "indicate that central bank policies would remain accommodative for a good while yet". No central bank would want to ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... financial markets. But this isn't about that war. It's the war being engaged by the mighty central banks of the world - the currency war that, is. You, I and Irene are well-aware of the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) intent. It's not making any bones about it ...