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China manufacturing expansion gains and slows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
China's official manufacturing PMI measure showed the index improving for the second straight month to 51.8 in March and the eight consecutive month that the index had been above the 50 expansion/contraction line. This is better than market expectations ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... January this year, it remains above the 8% average that prevailed in the years before the GFC (and an all-time low of 7.2% in March 2008). As for inflation, in the Q&A portion of the 9 March meeting, Mario Draghi stated that, rising headline inflation ...

Paragon hires distribution head from Challenger

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... companies. The fund is available to both wholesale and retail investors and has returned 66.7% net of fees since inception in March 2013, compared to the 33.5% returned by the All Ordinaries Accumulation Index.

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... optimistic since December of that year. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index surged to a reading of 125.6 in March from 116.1 in the previous month (itself, revised up from an initial reading of 114.8). This is sharply higher than market ...

Confidently improving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... reading of -5.0. This is higher than market expectations for a -5.7 print and continues the short-term uptrend that started in March last year when the index bottomed at -9.7; medium-term when the index hit its nadir at -26.2 back in December 2012 (mainly ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... than through much of H2 2016." (NAB) "The Westpac Melbourne Institute Index of Unemployment expectations fell by 3.1% in March pushing the Index back to around the levels in December." (WBC) Even the RBA noted as much in its March policy statement: "The ...

A good set of numbers (almost)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
... small 1.5% increase in the preceding quarter. This is the fastest quarterly rate of growth since the 34.7% jump recorded in March 2001 and is significantly higher than market expectations for an 8.0% increase. The details of the report showed sharp profit ...

Investment manager and advice group join forces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... the creation of a new Clime-branded advisory network named Clime Private Wealth. The first office will open in Brisbane in March with a view to have further offices operating nationwide by the end of 2017. A statement from Clime regarding the alliance ...

IMAP ensuring greater representation for MDAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... Professionals will establish a sub-committee to represent the interests of managed discretionary account providers. Commencing in March, the MDA Providers Forum will be an invitation-only sub-group, open to leaders of businesses with an AFSL authorisation ...

Bus operator fails to pay super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... Operations manager Terry Huang and sole director Chin Kuen Yung will appear in the Federal Circuit Court in Brisbane in March.