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Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... partners - one that could withstand a 25 bps increase in the Fed funds rate... and soon. Our very own Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is lucky. By the time Gov Glenn and his Board meets on Tuesday next week (3 November Melbourne Cup Day), the RBA would ...

Pengana finding plenty to buy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... preserve investors' capital and provide downside protection in difficult markets - generating a return of at least 6% above the RBA cash rate, no matter what markets are doing. Pengana currently manages about $1.5 billion in assets across five equity ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... with concerns over slowing China and slumping commodity prices and slowing global growth and low-flation. As our very own RBA governor Glenn Stevens put it after the Fed's no-lift in September decision, "There will always be one piece of data that says ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtFvjYv39-8). The time is ripe, perhaps, for WBC to bring that back on given the way it changed RBA rate cut expectations from "maybe" to "sure thing baby" - even as early as next month - after it raised its property ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... central banks that conducted their regular tete-a-tete on monetary policy so far this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept money things the same - as expected - as it continues to see the "global economy is expanding at a moderate pace, with ...

Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... get a recession back then? The transmission of monetary policy finally transmitting? Businesses finally drinking the water RBA gov Glenn led them? This positive report is consistent with the AiG Performance of Manufacturing Index which increased to 52.1 ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... "bad-er" ones sell better). True to script, the bad news have rolled in thick and fast. "It may take a magic wand from the RBA (or the new Turnbull government) for Australia to escape a recession. Already, Australian (per capita) living standards are ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... measure. The problem with this is that it creates a problem for other central bankers such as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) but more pointedly for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central Bank (ECB). RBA Gov Glenn presented his rationale ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... higher. Ultimately though the downtrend in the $A is likely to resume - as the Fed is still likely to hike at some point, the RBA is likely to remain under pressure to cut and commodity prices remain weak - so there is no change to my view that the $A ...

VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... rate at an all-time low we believe that the economic conditions, both in Australia and globally will inevitably lead to the RBA raising interest rates in the medium term," VicSuper chief investment officer Oscar Fabian said. "However uncertainty surrounds ...