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Former ambassador assesses US-China trade deal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
A trade deal between US and China could end the uncertainty but it won't do anything to help the trade deficit, according to Capital Group vice chairman Michael Thawley. The former Australian ambassador to the US spoke at the Financial Standard ...

Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... the Turkish lira had already been weakening even before this new crisis. On May 24 this year, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey's (TCMB) held an emergency meeting (before its scheduled June 7 meeting) and lifted its liquidity window lending ...

Fossil fuelled Ireland to divest for climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
The Republic of Ireland looks set to become the world's first country to divest from fossil fuels. On July 12 lawmakers in the nation's Dail Eireann - the lower house of parliament - passed a bill requiring the Irish government to sell off any interests ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... reason was to stem the precipitous drop in the peso and rein in accelerating inflation. 'twas the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey's (TCMB) turn when it held an emergency meeting last night (before its scheduled June 7 meeting). While it ...

ANZ appoints two senior executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... been the group executive for wealth Australia since 2016. Before joining ANZ, she was the chief executive of ING's Czech Republic and Slovakia business which included banking, funds management as well as insurance. Hand joined ANZ in 1998. In his most ...

Chief economist update: Crying for Argentina

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
The Argentinian central bank lifted interest rates, a move intended to stem the sharp and rapid depreciation of the Argentine peso and by extension put downward pressure on inflation. Whoa! Fret not whether the Fed is going to raise interest rates by ...

Global investment firm to restructure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
A global investment firm with $176 billion in assets under management will undergo a corporate restructure. Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts (KKR) will convert from a partnership to a corporation on July 1, in a move which is designed to attract new investors. ...

2018 FICAP 'Who Wants to be a Rockstar' raises over $300k

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
Research analyst by day, Rockstar by night. George Hadja from Montgomery Investment Management took home the coveted 2018 Rockstar of the Year Award at an industry fundraiser organised by the Finance Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) in Sydney ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
"Here comes the sun, and I say It's all right." -- The Beatles Wall Street again went on a record breaking run last week with the S&P 500, the DJIA, the Nasdaq Composite and the Russell 2000 all finishing at all-time highs... and for good reasons. Growth ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
It's beginning to look a lot like the Grinch will steal Christmas 2017 and investors would be happy just to get the two-front teeth in their hanged stockings. That's the feeling many an investor would get upon the reading the nasty news, exemplified ...