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Inside Bennelong and its UK engine room

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... from securing its first boutique partners, the UK business of Bennelong Funds Management is ready to scale up. But will Brexit get in the way? Speaking to Financial Standard in London recently, BennBridge chief operating officer Greg Thomas said the ...

Chief economist update: Slowing in sync

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... between Brussels and Italy and its proposed budget deficit and the general slowing in Eurozone economic activity, there's Brexit, and of course, there's Trump's trade war against China. A picture paints a thousand words, so here's what ...

Chief economist update: Buy the dip or sell the rallies?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... strength another big headwind amid continued pickup in concerns about looming shift from QE to QT. Worries about a hard Brexit have flared back up again. Rome and Brussels still at odds over Italian budget. China policy fine-tuning measures still seen ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... January 2009 - from 2.9% in the previous period. But governor Carney could be forgiven for "waiting" this time because Brexit is nigh. "The economic outlook will depend significantly on the nature of EU withdrawal, in particular the form of new trading ...

Quant manager seeks to unscramble cryptocurrency dictionary

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... ESG connectivity between companies that wouldn't ordinarily be considered. So how does the chief scientist approach Brexit? "[Generally] machine learning models require big data sets, and if you give me data on 500,000 Brexit-like events then I could ...

Chief economist update: US bond yield jump made FTSE slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... for the fourth straight month to 2.7% in July from 2.5% in June while core inflation jumped to 2.1% from 1.8%. Without Brexit uncertainty and concerns over the US-China trade spat, no one could fault the BOE if it raised rates again sooner than expec ...

The BOE's got no problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... sources of risk to its optimistic forecasts but unlike its peers, it also has to deal with the potential fall-out from Brexit. The BOE only made marginal adjustments to its growth and inflation projections in August: GDP growth is forecast at 1.4% this ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... increased risk on global trade wrought on the world by Trump's protectionist policies and of course the uncertainty over Brexit, the BOE remains optimistic. The MPC's updated growth and inflation projections are broadly the same as in the May ...

Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... there's the risk to growth from the stronger currency and brewing trade war and then there's the lingering uncertainty of Brexit. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... in February and March and that underlying growth is much more resilient, citing the strong labour market and that while Brexit uncertainty continues as a drag on growth, it's not intensifying. However, the details of the UK National Accounts are ...