Data collected about student behaviour doesn't help improve teaching or learning

Apr 25, 2016 23:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Universities and schools around the world face constant pressure to find measures that demonstrate their impact on student learning. Most recently, they are devoting immense amounts of time, money and other resources to a...

Negative Rates Series

Buy, rent, or do both: the perversion of negative gearing

Apr 25, 2016 23:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate

Other than renting, the most common way to get a roof over your head is to buy a home and live in it. Another way is to buy a home and rent it out, and then rent a similar home (buy, rent, rent). Thanks to the perverse...

Five budget myths that refuse to die

Apr 25, 2016 23:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views

In the lead up to the federal budget on May 3, we asked five experts to dispel some of the most common myths associated with government budgets. 1. The federal budget is like a household budget Richard Holden,...

FxWirePro: EUR/CHF IVs and risk reversals signal trend still to be in range - naked straddle shorts fetch certain yields

Apr 25, 2016 13:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views

1W ATM of EUR/CHF is at shy below 5%. This lower IVs of ATM contracts have been lacklustre and seems like huge disparity exists between option premiums and IVs as the 1W ATM puts have been priced 23% more than NPV which in...

Fed to keep rates steady, unlikely to send a strong message of an imminent policy tightening

Apr 25, 2016 11:16 am UTC| Insights & Views

U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers meet on April 26-27 and markets largely expect that interest rates will be kept steady with a slim possibility of a surprise hike. Focus will be on the press statement and whether there is...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: MXN among EM outplays in leveraged funds, RUB appreciation to prolong - hedging via derivative instruments

Apr 25, 2016 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views

Among the three EM currencies, MXN performed the best with a net buy of USD0.9bn by leveraged funds to take the overall position to a net long of USD0.1bn, the first time of MXN long since November 2015. Leveraged funds...

FX Hedging Strategy Series

FxWirePro: Time again for AUD/NZD “Credit Call Spreads” ahead of RBNZ policy

Apr 25, 2016 06:26 am UTC| Insights & Views

We expect the RBA to remain on hold in next weeks monetary policy decision, but the RBNZ may ease again this week either on April 27th or June, particularly the rising NZDbring an April cut into play. If not in April,...