central banks

In the face of the most serious global health crisis in more than a century, fiscal and monetary policymakers around the world will very likely have to pull out all...

For a while it looked like nothing could derail the constant drive higher in asset prices as central banks worked out that with quiescent inflation they could continue...

Global equity indices have erased all their year-to-date gains, entering correction territory of 10% losses in the space of just four days. U.S. Treasury yields have...

Buoyed by the US-China trade deal agreement, stock markets marched in unison to record highs at the start of 2020. That was until coronavirus started dominating...

The start of a new year is when many people spring clean the house. Slightly less unpleasantly, it’s also a good time to review your collection of investments....

In January 2014, over five years ago, we wrote in our Half Year Report: “As a nervous January in the markets comes to an end, we still believe the ending of active...

The slowdown in global growth does, in part, reflect waning globalisation, but it is important to remember that this slowdown was very much entrenched even before...

In case you were wondering whether to sell all those boring defensive highly indebted infrastructure, utility and REIT stocks, look at these charts of the US,...

Central bank policy within the developed world has been marked over the past decade by a systematic failure to achieve pre-set inflation targets. In response central...

Quantitative easing (QE) is the process by which central banks inject money directly into the financial system, usually through the purchase of government bonds using...

After the strong rally which saw gold put on USD $100oz in Q4 2018, the precious metal market has undergone a much needed consolidation over the last fortnight, with...

Sudden outbreaks in volatility through this year have spooked the equity markets, and investors are questioning if more is to come. We spoke with rate market expert,...

Gold prices have steadied in the last few trading days, after correcting over the last month in the face of a rallying USD, and a sharp unwind in speculative...

Over the past 18 months, the term ‘Goldilocks’ has increasingly been used to describe the global economic climate – neither too ‘hot’ to cause rampant inflation, nor...

September 27th, 1983. What comes to mind? What if I include the quote from Bob Hawke? “Any boss who sacks a worker for not turning up today is a bum”. If you are over...

FIIG Securities guest economist, Saul Eslake looks at the current global shift by central banks in ‘advanced’ economies to increase inflation, rather than keep it down...

In recent years, markets have reacted positively to signs of inflation. Inflation has been indicative of improving conditions in the economy, and central banks have...

Beggars in China with QR codes hanging around their necks and others pleading with matrix-barcoded tins caused a stir when they appeared on Chinese city streets in the...