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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... Consumer confidence among South Koreans improved to a reading of 100 - an equal number of optimists and pessimists - in March from 98 in the previous month. The latest figure marks the first improvement in sentiment following three consecutive months ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... for the country's labour market remains dim. While business confidence improved for a third consecutive month to 37.4 in March from 37.1 in February and 36.5 in January, it remains far below the 50-mark indicating pessimists still outnumber optimists. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... PMI Markit's preliminary measure of US factory activity showed little improvement with the flash PMI printing at 51.4 in March, just a tad higher than February's final reading of 51.3 and lower than even the bottom range (51.5 - 52.5) of consensus expectations. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... burdening many potential buyers." China MNI business sentiment The MNI China business sentiment indicator printed at 49.9 in March, unchanged from February, marking the second consecutive month of sub-50 reading (the level that delineates optimism from ...

ASX chief announces immediate resignation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... when Tabcorp was attempting to get a Cambodian online gaming licence. When news of the investigation came out earlier in March, ASX chair Rick Holliday-Smith said that Funke Kupper would be "continuing in his role as ASX managing director and chief executive. ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
"Do you know where you're going to... Where are you going to Do you know?" - Diana Ross, 'Theme from Mahogany" Last week was another good week for equity markets with most major benchmark indices finishing with green lights blinking brightly. Has the ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... rate from 20% to 19.5% in February 2015, followed up with a reduction in its benchmark lending rate from 5.6% to 5.35% in March and so on. China's central bank cut the RRR four times in 2015 taking it down from 20% to 17.5% by end-December. It cut interest ...

BTIM board replaces Cooper

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... Financial Group. The pair work closely at BTFG with Vance reporting to Cooper. Vance was appointed as BTFG chief risk officer in March 2015, and has held senior roles in the Westpac Group since he joined in 2008 including: group general manager, core ...

Antipodes Partners recruits investment analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
... look forward to the energy that Chris will bring to the company." Antipodes Partners is global equities boutique founded in March 2015. The company was launched with $200 million in seed money from Perennial's international equity business, which it ...

Magellan average monthly inflows hit $214m

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... equities strategy, the Magellan Global Equities Fund, which has attracted over 8,500 unitholders and was listed on the ASX in March 2015 and is now available via "replica funds" through AMP, CBA and BT/Westpac. Speaking to Financial Standard, Douglass ...