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ANZ appoints chief underwriter

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... for OnePath Life Insurance. Peter Tilocca was appointed as acting chief underwriter following John Leonard's retirement in March, having previously been group underwriting and operations manager and senior manager, insurance transformation since joining ...

PAC secures $33m in insto capital

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... Capital Management to Treetop Asset Management S.A. in December. The group also held an extraordinary general meeting in March to implement a major restructure of its business to resolve issues arising from the merger of operations between Treasury Group ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... indicators for the second quarter are not so plush. US retail sales growth have trended lower from 4.8% year-on-year growth in March to 4.6% in April and 3.8% in May. There's a similar downtrend in inflation as well. Headline inflation's has eased from ...

Daintree launches fixed income trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... manager of interest rates and currency Justin Tyler added. Sydney-based fixed income specialist Daintree Capital launched in March, using Perennial Investment as its responsible entity.

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... global economy. The OECD also answered its own question - "Will risks derail the modest recovery?" - initially posted in March's Interim Economic Outlook. In its June report, the OECD declared that it expects a modest pick-up in global growth - lifting ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... reprieve. US consumer confidence weakened for the second straight month in May - down to 117.9 from 119.4 in April and 124.9 in March. Consumer expectations over the next 12 months also weakened, down to 102.6 in May from 105.4 in April and 112.3 in ...

Manager lists after $3bn merger

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... rejecting Pinnacle and WHSP's multiple bids, WHSP now has a significant stake in PCG, having bought 37% of Pengana from NAB in March.

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... (from 7.1% in the year to March) and owner-occupied housing maintaining the 6.1% year-on-year growth rate it recorded in March. Growth in loans to businesses has slowed to 3.1% in the year to April from 3.5% in the previous month and 7.3% in April last ...

Approved to build more dwellings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... total dwelling approvals increased by 4.4% in the month of April. While only partially reversing the 10.3% drop recorded in March, it was stronger than market expectations for a 3.0% increase. As in previous months, the see-saw in the headline approvals ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... recorded in the previous month. Similarly, the core inflation rate (ex- fresh food) quickened to 0.3% in April from 0.2% in March and the core-core rate of inflation (ex- fresh food and energy) went up to 0% from -0.1%. Admittedly, all measures remain ...