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Two senior leaders exit Iress

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... after nearly five years. Prior to Iress, he ran his own communications consultancy firm, and worked at Westpac and Acumen Republic. Iress is currently recruiting for a new chief client solutions officer. Head of communications and of marketing for APAC ...

AMP names new chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... oversaw IT, operations, marketing and product for Asia Pacific and was chief executive of ING Insurance in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and executive director at ING Australia. Prior to this, she was chief executive at BNP Paribas and executive director ...

ADB invests in sustainable start-ups

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... received $60 million in funding commitments in 2020 from Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Government of the Republic of Korea, Climate Investment Funds' Clean Technology Fund and the Nordic Development Fund. It has a 17-year fund life ...

Chief economist update: Disappointing jobs results raise Biden's stimulus bid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
Talk about perfect timing. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) disappointing update on the state of employment in America couldn't have come at a more opportune time - the time when fresh president of the US, Joe Biden, is bidding the Congress ...

You can't hate Trump but love the S&P 500: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
If you disliked Donald Trump, you may want to reconsider your investment in S&P 500 stocks as new research shows these companies are likely to donate more to the Republicans than to the Democrats. Goods Unite Us mapped political donations from S&P 500 ...

Chief economist update: Biden cooks Donald's duck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
"A whole new world A new fantastic point of view..." -Zayn Malik, Zhavia Ward Former vice-president Joe Biden is now POTUS-elect, breaking the record for the most votes (70 million plus votes and counting) received by a presidential candidate in US ...

Banking crisis more likely in conflicted countries: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... 40% of banking system loans were non-performing and the licence of one bank was suspended in 1994. In Central African Republic, bank non-performing loans increased to more than one-third of total loans and some banks became undercapitalised following ...

EM debt relatively unscathed by virus: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... include exporters such as Chile, Saudi Arabia and Brazil." On the other hand, Eaton Vance said countries like the Dominican Republic and Mexico that have fewer direct economic ties to China and import commodities may do better, as falling import prices ...

China vaccinates against corona

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... from a steep 10.0% (on the third of Feb) to a mere 0.3% three weeks hence. What gives? What gave is the People's Republic of China's politburo and central bank got going. Apart from the government's drastic action at quarantining cities and ...

Chief economist update: Australia burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds military force and one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic. This prompted the Iranian government to announce that it would no longer abide by the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, lifting ...