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CFA Australia recruits industry veterans

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... income portfolio manager. Before joining the investment industry, Wilton worked for the Commonwealth Treasury as an economist. Dunne, who is a director at Cbus and QIC, joins as chair of CFA Societies Australia's Advocacy Council. The council backs professionalism ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
Echoing BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's quick push back on taper speculations, Deutsche Bundesbank president and ECB governing council member Jens Weidmann used his speech at the Ludwig-Erhard Summit in Bavaria to do the same. Like Kuroda, Weidmann's ...

CBA creates new lead research role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... creation of a new senior role, welcoming its first managing director, head of global markets research. Former chief economist for Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Stephen Halmarick, joined CBA in the newly created role this week. Bringing ...

Chief economist update: iPhone and Black Friday sales ring up retail registers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
The Australian consumer is back! He, she, it, they have opened their wallets and went on a shopping binge. This, at least, is what one would conclude after seeing the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report revealing that retail sales surged by ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
Bill Gross - known as the "king of bonds" - has recently dropped a bombshell, or in this case, a bond sell. The Financial Times reports that: "The Janus Henderson manager said the $2.2bn Global Unconstrained Bond Fund has taken a short position on Treasuries ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) announcement that it's trimming ¥10 billion off its purchases of 10 to 25-year and 25 to 40-year JGBs sent the Japanese yen 0.5% higher against the US dollar to ¥112.43 after it sparked renewed taper speculations. While Bloomberg ...

Only way is up for global economy: Baur

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
Giving his 2018 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum preview, Principal Global Investors chief global economist Bob Baur says it's hard to find any near-term threats to the global economy. Speaking to Financial Standard, Baur said the world economy ...

Marriage equality and the estate plan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... include "persons who live together in a genuine domestic relationship as a couple, regardless of their gender." ANZ senior economist Cherelle Murphy predicted in September that marriage equality would produce an economic benefit of at least $650 million ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... times - much more than its long-term average of 14.4 times - implying that it's around 27% overvalued. An article in The Economist magazine thinks it's greater: "The cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio of the American market, which uses a ten-year ...

FS has you covered in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... in 2017, but this year also marked the anniversary of several historic and global economic turning points. Renowned economist Saul Eslake reminded a packed house at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in February that it was the 30th anniversary ...