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Australian Food Super closes two options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2025
... transaction costs that were higher than the prior year. This was mainly from stamp duty expenses incurred on property asset purchases. This consequently led to investment fees and costs rising to 1.21% p.a. from 0.57% p.a. Formerly AMIST Super, Australian ...

Knight Frank releases 2022 outlook

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... pandemic lows. Ten-year bond yields have risen to around 1.9% as market participants anticipate the tapering of asset purchases by central banks, and eventually policy rate increases. Knight Frank's chief economist Ben Burston said that, despite taking ...

Economic recap: Week to November 12

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... that the RBA had already been easing accommodation starting in September this year - when it reduced its weekly asset purchases from $5 billion to $4 billion until at least mid-February 2022. The bank's November decision is just a natural progression ...

Economic recap: Week to October 15

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... illustrative tapering path was designed to be simple to communicate and entailed a gradual reduction in the pace of net asset purchases that, if begun later this year, would lead the Federal Reserve to end purchases around the middle of next year. The ...

Economic recap: Week to September 24

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... it might be appropriate at some point in upcoming meetings to begin discussing a plan for adjusting the pace of asset purchases." Que horror! From this time on, every dip in the equity markets - and more generally, risk-off moves - became one of the ...

Economic recap: Week to August 27

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
... participants, that if the economy evolved broadly as anticipated, it could be appropriate to start reducing the pace of asset purchases this year." This is in reference to the US$120bn in monthly asset purchases -- at least US$80bn in Treasury securities ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... July) the GDP growth figures were released. However, the US central bank hinted that it could start "tapering" asset purchases soon because "the economy has made progress toward these goals [employment and inflation] despite the resurgence of infections ...

Chief economist update: UK not there yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... the target for the stock of these government bond purchases at £875 billion and so the total target stock of asset purchases at £895 billion," the BOE said. Yet, the FTSE-100 index closed half a percent higher on the day - up 10.1% this year to ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... deposit facility at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.50%, respectively. Also: "The Governing Council will continue to conduct net asset purchases under the pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) with a total envelope of â,¬1,850 billion until at least the ...

Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... earlier. Then again, if all else fail and to counteract the risks to growth, "we will continue to conduct net asset purchases under the pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) with a total envelope of â,¬1.850 trillion until at least the end of ...
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