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ISA appoints "fiscal hawk" chief economist

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has appointed a new chief economist. Stephen Anthony joins the association from Macroeconomics, where he was director of budget and forecasting. He is also a former Treasury economist and participated in the development ...

BTIS makes two senior hires

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... joining CBA, Rocks has held investment strategy roles with Macquarie in Hong Kong and Australia and was previously an economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia. He starts on 29 June. In the other major appointment, Ron Mehmet has been promoted to ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... the Statistician releases the National Accounts numbers this Wednesday. Already, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake, has lowered his first quarter growth forecast from 0.5% to 0.3% -- the slowest since the March quarter of 2013 ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... CAC 40 a lost ground due to "the combination of a holiday and an empty economic calendar," said Christopher Dembik, economist at Saxo Banque. But though Renta 4 analyst Angel Perez said in Spain investors had reacted cooly to anti-austerity parties topping ...

Chief economist joins Sunsuper

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Sunsuper has appointed a new chief economist. Brian Parker joins the $32 billion super fund from NAB Asset Management, where he was head of portfolio specialists. He has also held positions at MLC Investment Management, Citigroup Asset Management, Rothschild ...

Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... time revising its US growth prediction down to 3.1% this year and the next from 3.6% in 2015 and 3.3% in 2016. 'The Economist' magazine's "poll of forecasters, May averages" is even less optimistic about America - predicting growth of just 2.6% this ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
"If you're going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... There's a whole generation with a new explanation..." - Scott McKenzie, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)" The song instantly played in my head as ...

Economist asleep over budget investment market impact

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Impact on investment markets from the 2015 budget does not excite AMP chief economist Shane Oliver. At a recent Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia post budget event, Oliver said he could almost fall asleep because he didn't see much impact ...

Budget projections risk being too optimistic, economists warn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... warned that the Government's projected revenue growth included in Budget 2015 risks being too optimistic. AMP chief economist Shane Oliver acknowledged that Treasurer Joe Hockey replaced the focus from last year's "budget emergency" to "boosting jobs ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... iron ore to China to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge, from Sydney to Perth, and then back to Sydney again." QIC chief economist Matthew Peter told Financial Standard that the different FTAs "make it easier for China, Korea and Japan to invest in Australia. ...