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Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... Malcolm Turnbull's leadership of the Liberal Party and ended with the sitting Treasurer Scott Morrison emerging as the country's 30th Prime Minister. And oh, the sixth head of Australia since Julia Gillard started the trend of back-knifing leaders in ...

Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
Scott Morrison will be Australia's next Prime Minister, after he beat Peter Dutton 45-40 in a Liberal Party leadership ballot. The ASX 200 jumped on the news, after trending downwards since Monday. It hit its highest at 1.05pm, when it was up 0.33% ...

Chief economist update: A new currency is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
Want a massive pay rise? An immediate 3464% (no typos there, it's a three thousand four hundred and sixty four percent) bump up in your wages? Pack your bags and move to Venezuela! You'll have to thank Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for ...

Financial services confidence continues spiral

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
A corporate governance expert believes confidence in Australia's financial institutions will continue to fall while they remain exposed to the pursuit of profit to the detriment of customers. Governance Institute of Australia chief executive Steven ...

BNY Mellon partners for new fund, eyes Aussie retail market

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... telcos, hospitals and senior care homes, aiming to keep cash allocations to 5%. BNY Mellon Investment Management Australia country head Phillip Filippelis said the banking giant's Australian business has, to date, focused on superannuation funds ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
"...the next move in the OCR could be up or down". This was a fair enough hedged bet from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) - more like the oft-repeated statements from other central banks saying "the risks are evenly balanced" - but Governor Adrian ...

Commitment to ethical investing booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... the effectiveness of ESG is assessing the countries the money is invested in. "That is what will attract capital to the country over time - they treat their workers better, earn better money, live longer and have higher living standards," Gey van Pittius ...

Chief economist update: Younger migrants and the elderly keep wages low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... health and/or the government's increase in the retirement age) - would expand the pool of available workers in the country. This would keep the unemployment rate higher than it would have been given lesser human resources. This would keep wages lower ...

Glennon Capital hires marketing director

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... AllianceBernstein's head of ANZ distribution for about four years. In his most recent role, Bolinowosky was Pioneer Investments country manager for Australia for about five years. Glennon said the appointments represented the beginning of a new and ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
If all goes according to expectations, today's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Board meeting will mark one-month and two years (25 months) that the country's cash rate had been stuck at a record low 1.50%, and the longest stretch of unchanged ...