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Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
First the good news. Crude oil prices have closed the March quarter of 2017 above the psychological US$50.00 per barrel mark - the level they have risen to since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that they (and non-OPEC ...

TCorp appoints ex-Willis Towers Watson executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
The overhaul of TCorp's investment team continues with the appointment of a new head of international equities from Willis Towers Watson. Ben Griffiths, formerly co-head of Australian equities research at the asset consultant, joins TCorp after almost ...

AMP Capital CIO departs in leadership reshuffle

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
AMP Capital's chief investment officer for global equities and fixed income will leave the business as part of a leadership restructure. Mark Beardow joined AMP Capital in 1998 as a credit analyst before moving onto head of credit markets, head of fixed ...

Less than expected but good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
Japan's latest trade stat indicates that the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) optimism, noted in its March monetary policy statement that, "Exports are expected to follow a moderate increasing trend on the back of an improvement in overseas economies" is perhaps ...

Not off the boil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Chinese authorities' regulatory restrictions to cool the housing market appear to be having little impact on property prices. Latest figures show that the average price of new homes in 70 Chinese cities rose by 0.3% in the month of February following ...

Standard Life marks Australian real estate as top performer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
Global asset manager Standard Life Investments says Australia is forecast to be the top-performing commercial real estate market in Asia Pacific. Sydney and Melbourne office spaces are tipped to be the winners "given a resilient Australian economy ...

Space and biblical indexes launched

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
Developer of custom investment indexes, S-Network Global Indexes, is proving there is an abundance of methods and opportunities to measure and track market performance. In the past month, the publisher has launched three indexes including the eVALUEator ...

Good for now worrying for later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
"The February NAB Monthly Business Survey gave back the surprisingly strong gains seen in the previous month..." This was the opening line of the NAB report on business confidence and business conditions for February. How much were given back? Business ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
Lost in the current expectations du jour - inevitable Fed rate hike on the 15th of March (and how many more thereafter) and US president Trump's reflationary policies (would they be passed in full, scaled down, or abandoned) are recent developments ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
People's Bank of China (PBOC) deputy governor Yi Gang's predicted inflation rate of 2% - 3% for this year appears at risk should the recent sharp slowdown in CPI inflation persist over the coming months. Headline inflation increased by a mere 0.8% in ...