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Grant Samuel adds retail distribution role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... manager for a newly created role. Stephen Higgins will take on the new role of key account manager in GSFM's NSW retail sales team, focusing on its IFA, private bank and family office channels. In addition to Fidante, Higgins has also held business development ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... economy, are the latest events and stats in China. First the stats, and latest China growth stats were mostly firmer: Retail sales growth accelerated to 10.3% in the year to September from 10.1% in the previous month and annual growth in industrial production ...

MetLife pushes for the retail market with new hire

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... MetLife will launch its retail life insurance offer to advisers and brokers next year and has appointed a head of retail sales from AMP to facilitate this process. Matt Lippiatt joins MetLife from AMP, where he was national account manager. He has held ...

Confidence up but will consumers shop?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... it's still early to conclude that this would eventually prompt an increase in household spending. The latest ABS retail sales survey showed retail spending dropped by a bigger-than-expected 0.6% in the month of August. Worse, July's retail figure was ...

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... has there been a larger two-month slide." (Australian Financial Review) Likewise, the year-on-year growth rate in retail sales had been on a steady downward slope since the middle of 2014 when they grew at a rate of around 6% to just a little over 2% ...

Kapstream co-founder steps down from global Janus Henderson role

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... Janus Henderson global chief investment officer Enrique Chang said. Locally, Janus Henderson also appointed a new retail sales director for Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania. David Livera joins the recently-merged $443 billion global asset manager ...

China slows to target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... production rose by 6% in the year to August versus 6.4% in the previous month and expectations for an increase of 6.6%. Retail sales slowed to 10.1% in the 12 months to August, down from growth of 10.4% in July and forecasts for a 10.5% rise. Lower than ...

Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
... consumer attitudes gives insight to the direction of the economy. But note that changes in consumer confidence and retail sales do not always move in tandem month by month. Strong consumer spending leads to strong economic growth, which in turn translates ...

Canada economic growth changes gears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... October 2008. The labour market's link to consumer spending is palpable, with latest available data showing that retail sales expanded by 7.4% in the year to June from an already strong 7.3% in the previous month. This is the fastest annual growth rate ...

Trustee Partners names Australian GM

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... on the role having previously been managing director of Required Financial Services. Prior to that, he was head of retail sales at Antares Asset Management, general manager distribution at Timbercorp and national alliance manager at IOOF. As above, his ...