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Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Here we go again, folks. It'll be another week of backwards and forwards betting on that never-ending, world-changing question of the "when" of the Fed lift-off. Earlier this year, it was so easy. Lift-off soon chatters - back then June was the month ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... - up from 67% last week. Collender chalks this up to increasing "Republican-on-Republican violence." The last time the America closed for business was in October 1-16, 2013. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) later estimated that the shutdown took ...

Australian pre-retirees streets ahead of US

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Industry bodies often say people's super savings will not fund a comfortable retirement, but new stats from the US show just how far ahead Australia is. Figures from US researcher Bankrate show that 26% of Americans ages 50 to 54 have no savings. That ...

More Macquarie advisers flock to Shaw

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... opportunity to work with head of private wealth Earl Evans - previously chief executive of Macquarie Private Wealth North America - and the "direction" Shaw was taking compelled him to join the firm. "Shaw and Partners has established itself as a business ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... speed after they start hiking interest rates. The reason I say that is because there are $10 trillion worth of deposits in America that for seven years have been bearing no interest. That's financial repression on a grand scale. "I suspect there will ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... decided to do nothing and leave interest rates where they were since 16 December 2008, at 0-0.25%. It's you, not me. Not America: "On balance, labor market indicators show that underutilisation of labour resources has diminished since early this year." ...

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices hails ESG leaders

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Sustainability Assessment (CSA). RobecoSAM's statement said that the biggest additions to the indices this year were the Bank of America Corp, Telefonica SA and BHP Billiton; the biggest deletions, meanwhile, were Cisco Systems, PepsiCo and the Royal ...

University investment portfolio includes tobacco and beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
British American Tobacco has landed among Sydney University's top international shareholdings in emerging markets as a balance is being sought in the university's environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment framework. Sydney University recently ...

Labour market says go, inflation says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Yes, no, maybe I don't know. That's the answer we got from the very latest US non-farm payrolls report on the question of a September lift-off. There was something for everyone. Those expecting the Fed to pull the lift-off trigger at their 16-17 September ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... be building. This brings us segue to Australia's own economy. An itsy-bitsy teenie weenie 25 bps interest rate hike in America would be like a pin prick had this land "girt by sea" been growing near trend. But at 2.3% in the March quarter (the latest ...