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Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
The sharp turnaround in the All Ordinaries index from the 2018 low of 5859.15 points plumbed on April 3 to 6234.95 points - 6.5 points short of this year's high of 6241.46 points (January) - by May 14 it had almost prompted me to declare that 2018 ...

ANZ insto property head joins $2.3bn debt manager

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
The former head of institutional property at ANZ has joined a commercial real estate debt manager as investment director. Based in Sydney, Eddie Law will focus on the New South Wales, Queensland and ACT markets; he will manage relationships with borrowers ...

Chief economist update: The dog ate my growth target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
... CNY243.2 billion in December - and household loans - up to CNY901.6 billion from CNY329.4 billion. Is China letting liquidity loose again for fear of growing below its 6.5% targeted growth for this year? It appears that way with retail sales growth slowing ...

Asset management services provider expands to Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
A global brokerage firm has acquired a licence to offer multi-asset investment management services in Australia. Blackwell Global Hong Kong attained a licence via the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to issue asset management services relating ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... re-appointed when his term expires on 8 April 2018. All up, these means the continuity of Abenomics - the program of very loose monetary policy, fiscal largesse and structural reforms. And continue it has. At its last policy meeting (30-31 October) ...

BEAR closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
The Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) is one step closer to being legislated with the Turnbull Government yesterday referring its Bill to the House of Representatives. Incorporating the Treasury Laws Amendment (Banking Executive Accountability ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... Democratic Party will win the 22 October general elections and hence, the continuation of "Abenomics" - the program of very loose monetary policy, fiscal largesse and structural reforms. No one could argue with this for it was Abe san's victory nearly ...

Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... strategies is leading to "the danger of cheap and dumb investing." He said that if "everybody moves into passive, all hell breaks loose" in the market, noting that if all passive money went into broad market cap-based indices, there wouldn't be as much ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... Mexico (12.0%). The Federal Reserve Board was correct (back then), the correlation between US and Chinese inflation was loose at best right through 2006 but have become positively correlated since the years following the GFC. Inflation in the Eurozone ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... There's some distance to achieving 2% inflation, so it's inappropriate to say now specifically how we will exit our ultra-loose monetary policy and how that could affect the BOJ's financial health. Laying out specific simulations now would only create ...