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Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... expected it, or a bit of both, but the European Central Bank's (ECB) first Governing Council meeting for 2020 - Madam Christine Lagarde's second meeting as ECB president - provided little excitement. It's steady as it was... The ECB kept ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... necessary to maintain favourable liquidity conditions and an ample degree of monetary accommodation." To be sure, not even Christine Lagarde wants to come out with all guns blazing in her debut as the new ECB president; nor was there urgent need to do ...

WiseTech short could impact super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... channeled, have been shielded from audit scrutiny," J Capital said. WiseTech chair of the audit and risk management committee Christine Holman resigned from her role with the company last week. Securities in the company were placed on a trading halt ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... downgraded it world economic growth forecasts (yet again) under its new managing director Kristalina Georgieva (who replaced Christine Lagarde who's replaced Mario Draghi as ECB chief). To be sure, Dr Georgieva has already warned about this in her ...

Super fund names new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... to a deputy chair position. VicSuper announced Wayne Kayler-Thomson stepped into the new role, switching roles with Christine Stewart, who has been chair since early 2017. Kayler-Thomson has served as deputy chair since January 2017 and has been a long-serving ...

AMP loses mandate to AustralianSuper

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... postal, telecommunications and information technology workers, to dump AMP. CWU wrote to Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate on 19 April 2018 concerned that reports from the financial services Royal Commission are "deeply concerning to our ...

Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... other countries that trades with America). Trump might get what he wants from the Fed too. For as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde recently warned: "US-China tariffs-including those implemented last year-could reduce global GDP by 0.5 percent ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... to 2.6% this year (from 2.9% it predicted in January) and 2.7% (from 2.8%) in 2020. Similarly, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde warned that, "US-China tariffs-including those implemented last year-could reduce global GDP by 0.5% in 2020 (see chart ...

Suncorp chief executive steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... director Michael Cameron will leave the company after four years in the role and seven as a board member. Suncorp chair Christine McLoughlin said now is the right time for change and indicated this will provide an opportunity for the company to enhance ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... trade battle and adds to the list of challenges the world faces. One that's voiced out by IMF managing director Christine Lagarde: "There is that concern about trade...rhetoric and tariffs... the "uncertainty over how this is going to be resolved ...