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Rainmaker Group acquires Money magazine

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... a consumer focussed Good Guide series, which includes: The Good Super Guide, The Good Investment Guide and The Good Economics Guide. Following the deal, Rainmaker Group has announced new leadership roles: Michelle Baltazar, current executive director ...

New directors join Frontier Advisors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... superannuation fund trustees, with extensive business acumen and practical knowledge of critical areas such as governance, economics and business administration." He also thanked Atkin for his service to the Frontier board. Edwards has had a long career ...

Younger HNWs splashing on art

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
A new tribe of art collectors is emerging across the globe as younger high-net-worth individuals loosen their purse strings to buy more readily than the old guard, says a new UBS report. Millennials accounted for almost half of the total high end spending ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore up or iron ore down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... US$92.19/tonne in February this year and after the Vale mine disaster in Brazil in late January 2019. "The surge led Capital Economics to bet the price could spike as high $US100 a tonne in the weeks ahead before dropping back to $US65 by the end of ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... Robert Frost and his iconic poem 'The Road Not Taken', Falas chose to major in econometrics - the branch of economics specifically concerned with mathematical methods, particularly statistics. "I really loved numbers but - oddly enough - when ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... multiplier effect on the economy will certainly not limit the retrenchment in consumption to "cars and furnitures." The HIA Economics Group published a report revealing that, "The total multiplier for output and employment in the construction industry ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... of adherence to the diktat of capitalist John Maynard Keynes. China's right in the thick of employing Keynesian Economics - a capitalist/market economy stabilisation policy theory advising increased government spending to shore up domestic demand ...

Chief economist update: Wrong way, go down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... A$ lower to US$0.7062 but that's still a long way away from the most bearish forecast of 'em all - "Capital Economics sees the local currency falling to US60c this year and hovering there through 2020; it previously forecast it at US65c for 2019 ...

'Best in show' a no go: KPMG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... total number of APRA-regulated funds has dropped from 2149 to 2004. Last week APRA chair Wayne Byres told the Senate Economics Legislation Committee the regulator has "upped the ante" over the past year in identifying underperforming funds and challenging ...

More consolidation to come: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... And a further three could also be headed for the exit door, APRA chair Wayne Byres said. Appearing before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee yesterday, Byres said the regulator has "upped the ante" over the past year in identifying underperforming ...