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Aussie bonds attractive to global investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... the record breaking $7.6 billion, 30-year bond issued by the federal government. Reinforcing the sentiment, CBA chief economist Michael Blythe cited the Australian economy's successful navigation of the post-GFC environment as further evidence of resilience ...

Legg Mason, AB funds highly recommended

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... is supported by an advisory board which includes former Future Fund chief executive Mark Burgess and former ANZ chief economist and well-known industry commentator, Saul Eslake. Lonsec noted that they were pleased with Jamieson Coote's active approach ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... employment sub-index fell to a reading of +1 in September from +4 in August. Commenting on the latest survey, NAB chief economist Alan Oster said that, "there was no hint that the RBA's interest rate cut in early August had any further material impact ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... 2014 that takes the quarterly PMI average down to its weakest reading in one and a half years. However, Amy Brownbill, economist at IHS Markit, noted that, "This was partly a result of the recent typhoons seen in Japan and suggests the downturn in the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
Australia retail sales It hasn't been since January this year that we saw retail spending increase at this monthly rate. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that retail sales grew by 0.4% in the month of August - higher than the ...

CFSGAM grows investments team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... joined the company's board to oversee CFSGAM's global infrastructure fund. Based in the US she is a well-known real asset economist with more than 25 years' financial services experience. "I have admired CFSGAM's approach to investing in both core and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... consumers' expectations of their personal finances and business conditions over the coming year. According to MNI senior economist Andy Wu, "The September data is encouraging and shows sentiment has not moved on to a clearly negative trend. More significantly ...

Budgets with more super tinkering are possible

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Westpac chief economist Bill Evans warns superannuation funds that further tinkering of the system at Budget time is not beyond the realms of possibilities. As federal politicians become further engrossed in "fixing the Budget" the chief economist reckons ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... three- to six-months ahead - improved from minus 0.01% in July to plus 0.20% in August. This, according to Westpac chief economist Bill Evans, is "consistent with a trend that has been building for some months now. The positive Index growth rate follows ...

Where's the Brexit-induced recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016