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Former Westpac GM joins APRA review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Grant Spencer. Spencer formerly held senior roles at the International Monetary Fund and was also previously head of financial stability and acting governor at the RBNZ. The two will work with former ACCC ...

Chief economist update: Euro contagion redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... uncertainty on confidence and demand." No, Virginia, that wasn't a misquote, it's taken from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update dated January 2018. That time, the IMF projected euro area growth of ...

Former ACCC chair will lead APRA capability review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel to lead the first. "The capability review will build on the recently completed International Monetary Fund's Financial Sector Assessment Program, which included an assessment of APRA's policy and supervisory framework ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
What a world of difference a year makes! The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just released its World Economic Outlook Update, the heading: A Weakening Global Expansion. Says it all, really...and for a synopsis: "The global expansion has weakened. ...

Future Fund investment specialist joins NZ Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... strategy roles at AIG Financial Products and Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, he worked with both the International Monetary Fund and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. In March, the Future Fund made several changes to its leadership team in an effort to ...

Chief economist update: A new currency is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... month's 46,305% jump in prices look very tame. Still, both inflation rates are nothing compared with the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) forecast that inflation could reach 1 million percent this year. The erosion of consumer purchasing power ...

EM bonds attractive despite pullback: Eaton Vance

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... investors pulled out about $6 billion from EM bonds in the week ending June 20, according to EPDR Global data cited by international media. But EM bonds are still attractive, especially if you know where to look, according to Eaton Vance's director of ...

Chief economist update: Steady at 24 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... monetary stimulus by a number of central ("and further steps in this direction are expected") to "the direction of international trade policy in the US" and "strains in a few emerging market economies, largely for country-specific reasons." But its prognosis ...

Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... to date. Forget the 2018 China GDP growth forecasts that the mammoth international institutions - International Monetary Fund (6.6%); Asian Development Bank (6.6%); Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (6.7%) - or even the Chinese government's ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... the conclusions on trade of the Hamburg G20 Summit, in particular, we underline the crucial role of a rules-based international trading system and continue to fight protectionism. We note the importance of bilateral, regional and plurilateral agreements ...