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Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
Isn't Australia part of the lucky group of countries (that include the EU, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea) US President Donald Trump, in all his benevolence, graciously granted exemptions (albeit, temporarily) from his protectionist ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... took effect and before Trump granted a temporary exemption to EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea until May 1 - ECB President Mario Draghi said that while the central bank remains confident that inflation would eventually ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... temporary exemptions to the tariff increase granted by Trump to the EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea until 1 May this year gives him away. POTUS just wants a stronger bargaining position against his trade partners. It's ...

Grant Thornton adds financial services partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... CSC, GE Capital, National Australia Bank, and Westpac. His experience covers a range of industries in Australia, USA, South Korea and New Zealand, in all areas of technology advisory, from IT strategy to digital transformation, application development ...

Global wealth manager champions embattled digital currencies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
One of the world's largest independent wealth management firms will introduce a cryptocurrency app, despite recent price slumps and having labelled it "a major gamble". deVere Group announced the launch of deVere Crypto which will allow users to store ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... Thailand, Vietnam - (US$3.7 billion in October). China recorded trade deficits with Taiwan (US$10.4 billion in October), South Korea (US$7.0 billion) and Japan (US$2.0 billion).

AXA IM appoints APAC lead for real assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... investment, asset management and capital raising activities from its offices in its newly-relocated Asian hub Japan and in South Korea and Australia. The promotion also now sees Jacquemin join AXA IM - Real Assets' global management board. Jacquemin ...

Chinese wealth firm takes stake in investment platform

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... facilitating cross-border business between high-net-worth and venture capital investors in China, Australia, Singapore and South Korea. Having made the investment, BMY Group chief executive Eric Gao has now joined Wholesale Investor's board. Gao explained ...

Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... $1,237,636 2 Government Pension Fund Norway $893,088 3 Federal Retirement Thrift U.S. $485,575 4 National Pension South Korea $462,161 5 ABP Netherlands $404,310 6 National Social Security China $348,662 7 California Public Employees U.S. $306,633 8 ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... too many times before. It even provided a nice buying opportunity. Thanks Kim. More so, given that the citizens of South Korea - the most immediate casualty of an all-out war - aren't highly concerned. New York Times bureau chief in South Korea, Choe ...