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Chief economist update: View from the National Farmers' Federation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... willingness to impose impossible regulatory standards that act as defacto trade barriers. Other EU FTAs, such as Canada, Korea and more recently Mexico have already had an impact on Australia food producers. For example, Australian cheesemakers can't ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... Donald Trump cannot get enough of it. Trump began his war crusade with the media (and fake news), then moved on to North Korea (although this was instigated by Kim's nuclear "exercises"), then trade and China, last weekend Syria (and indirectly Syria's ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... the May 1 expiration of the tariff exemption Trump granted to EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea - and the chills, they'll be multiplying. US Census Bureau data show that except for Argentina and Brazil, America imports ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
Isn't Australia part of the lucky group of countries (that include the EU, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea) US President Donald Trump, in all his benevolence, graciously granted exemptions (albeit, temporarily) from his protectionist ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... took effect and before Trump granted a temporary exemption to EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea until May 1 - ECB President Mario Draghi said that while the central bank remains confident that inflation would eventually ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... temporary exemptions to the tariff increase granted by Trump to the EU, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea until 1 May this year gives him away. POTUS just wants a stronger bargaining position against his trade partners. It's ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
Raised volatility on Wall Street, North Korea, American protectionism, stagnant wages growth and high household debt levels, rising electricity prices and still elevated property prices - and more recently, Barnaby Joyce - these are a few of (not my ...

BetaShares shareholder buys $13 billion fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
A significant shareholder in BetaShares has added a $13 billion ETF manager to its growing stable. Korea-based Mirae Asset Global Investments entered a $616 million definitive agreement to purchase 100% of fully diluted shares in New York-based ETF ...

Grant Thornton adds financial services partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... CSC, GE Capital, National Australia Bank, and Westpac. His experience covers a range of industries in Australia, USA, South Korea and New Zealand, in all areas of technology advisory, from IT strategy to digital transformation, application development ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... while also facing lower capital charges than other risk assets. Invesco chief executive Greater China, Southeast Asia and Korea, Terry Pan said: "With improving market fundamentals and tightening monetary policies, the study revealed that fixed income ...