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QEnd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... greenback and hence, "have negative consequences" for US growth? More so, because this comes at the same time that financial markets anticipate the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to ramp up their respective QEs. I guess we just ...

Asia Pacific wealth growth outstrips world average

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... wealth management industry: 85% expressed high trust in wealth managers, 87% in wealth management firms, 78% in financial markets, and 80 % in regulatory institutions. Looking ahead, 88% of Asia-Pacific (excl. Japan) HNWIs are confident in their ability ...

MySuper fees approaching KiwiSaver best practice

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... Systems Inquiry (FSI) by the New Zealand Council of Financial Regulators (a NZ official group that includes the NZ Financial Markets Authority; NZ Treasury; the Reserve Bank of NZ; and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment) it was revealed ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... into financial market vernacular lately. We read and hear about these phrases mostly during phases when the financial markets are in a state of flux and/or heightened volatility - like the one we're getting now. This is because financial markets, they ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground, volatility. Well they got their wish - and long before the gift-giving season that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... down 42 points at 5,179. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is down to speak at the Thomson Reuters FX Benchmark event in Sydney. In equities news, Ten Network is expected ...

EY appoints Oceania banking and capital markets leader

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... financial services clients across a range of areas including business processes and internal control frameworks, financial markets and treasury operations, credit risk, due diligence, securitisation, and regulatory and prudential reporting. EY's Oceania ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... demand growth and a strong US dollar. According to me, this is the other side of the same slowing growth coin financial markets are currently sweating over. And it'll get worse. The IEA has significantly reduced its guesstimate for oil demand to 770K ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Like a dog with a bone, financial markets have latched onto growth - or more precisely, the lack of it - and wouldn't let go. Wall Street remains in no mood for celebration even as America commemorated the day Christopher Columbus discovered their land ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... weaker than anticipated". With the IMF's latest guesswork has confirmed that all isn't still well in the world, financial markets are resting easy that that "considerable time" before the Fed starts raising interest rates would remain "considerable" ...