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China manufacturing expansion gains and slows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
China's official manufacturing PMI measure showed the index improving for the second straight month to 51.8 in March and the eight consecutive month that the index had been above the 50 expansion/contraction line. This is better than market expectations ...

What a drag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Along with household consumption, exports were the biggest contributor - both adding 0.5 percentage point -- to Australia's faster-than-expected 1.1% expansion in the fourth quarter of last year (expectations were for a 0.7% gain), that took the annual ...

Dwindling reserves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
China's foreign exchange reserves continued to decline, falling by US$12.3 billion in January to US$2.988 trillion - the first time since February 2011 that reserves had fallen below the important psychological threshold of US$3 trillion. Though this ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
Australia AiG performance of services It wasn't as sharp as the 3.3 point increase in the manufacturing index to 54.2 in November, but the AiG performance of services index's 0.6 point rise to 51.1 continues the trend towards stronger expansion seen ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
Australia capex The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on business investment shows actual private new capital expenditure drop by 4.0% in the September quarter. While worse than market expectations for a 2.5% fall, the third quarter figure ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2016
Australia performance of manufacturing The Australian Industry Group's (AiG) performance of manufacturing index bounced back into expansion territory with a reading of 50.9 in October after two months of contraction (below 50) - 46.9 in August 49.8 ...

Magellan flags risk plan for Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
Magellan chairman Brett Cairns has publically addressed the risk of anything happening to "key man" Hamish Douglass, reassuring investors that a plan of succession is in place. Addressing shareholders at the investment firm's annual general meeting ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australia private sector credit Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) figures showed that the annual growth in private sector credit slowed from 6.0% in July to 5.8% in August - the slowest rate since October 2014. Except for the bumps in December 2015 and ...

AMP Capital strengthens US infrastructure debt team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
AMP Capital has appointed a vice-president to its New York-based infrastructure debt team. Adam Heath joined the investment manager earlier this month with the primary responsibility of origination and execution of infrastructure debt investments in ...

CIPR discussion paper by year's end

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
There are still plenty of policy issues that have to be unpicked around Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement but Treasury says a framework discussion paper will be released by year's end. Treasury retirement income policy division head, Jenny ...