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No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... business models were increasingly battered by requirements to pay for keeping money on deposit with the European Central Bank. It was at this time, he says, that the focus started to shift toward the potential for fiscal policy to break the stalemate ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Waning. Impotent. Ineffective. End-game. These were some of the adjectives applied to the major central banks' "non-conventional" policy stimuli of recent years. Terms, that when mentioned with the word "lift" alongside the Fed and the loss of faith ...

A new narrative for diversification: Western Asset

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
Complementary central bank activity has hurt the traditional diversification narrative, according to product specialist at Western Asset Management Robert Abad. Speaking with Financial Standard about the launch of the Legg Mason Western Asset Macro ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... ¥121.14 from ¥118.82 the day before and then resumed climbing. Heck, the yen didn't even budge when the Japanese central bank announced an "Enhancement of Monetary Policy Easing" last 29 July (the yen closed higher to ¥102.06 from ¥105.27). Measured ...

NZ Super Fund posts decent full-year return

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... be volatile and on a low trajectory for some time," he said. "Global growth and inflation remain subdued, despite central bank actions and historically low interest rates. There is an abundance of capital looking for investment opportunities, and asset ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... Bank of Japan's (BOJ) monetary policy decision, freshly-released trade data confirms speculations that the Japanese central bank will announce further easing in policy settings today - the only question is in what size, shape and form. Japan posted a ...

Regal named best Australian hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... Kim Ivey, one of the event's founders. "In the current distorted environment of negative bond yields and widespread central bank liquidity, the performance bar for hedge funds has never been higher. "Unlike the traditional asset management industry ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... classic September could become a hit come the "twenty-first night of September" should re-emergent concerns over central bank policies proved founded. It doesn't matter whether it's by chance or by design but both the US Federal Reserve and the Bank ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... spending but at the same time is a positive for consumers' balance sheet. ECB policy As widely expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) kept policy unchanged at its September Governing Council meeting - the fifth straight month of unchanged monetary ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... decreased by 4.8%. Bank Negara Malaysia kept interest rates unchanged at 3.0% following its 7 September meeting. The central bank cut interest rates by 25 bps in July this year.