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Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... confidence (reported later on the same day last month) fell to reading of 99.7 in November. The annual growth in retail sales picked up in October but only a wee bit to 1.8% which was not sufficient to reverse the trend decline in the annual growth rate ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... 51.4 in October - the ninth consecutive month that it's been above the 50 expansion/contraction line. Similarly, retail sales data released yesterday showed that retail spending lifted by a stronger than expected 0.5% in the month of October following ...

Grant Samuel wins RE mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... Stephen Higgins in the newly created role of key account manager for New South Wales. Higgins will work with the retail sales team, focusing on its IFA, private bank and family office channels. He joined from Challenger's multi-boutique business, Fidante ...

Where in the cycle is Australia?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... that which accounts for around a third of the Australian economy - household spending. Indeed, the annual growth in retail sales, down to 1.4% September, had been decelerating over the past four months. Wages have to grow by much more than the CPI before ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... 12 consecutive months of decline. But this is where the good news ends. This is because of the updated Australian retail sales figures. They're bad. Australian retail sales - that which account for a big chunk of household final consumption expenditure ...

Perennial welcomes new head of retail

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... promoted a senior investment specialist to lead its retail division. Cesar Farfan will take on the role of head of retail sales as part of Perennial's continued strategic expansion. Farfan joined Perennial's investment team in 2015, prior to which he ...

Grant Samuel adds retail distribution role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... manager for a newly created role. Stephen Higgins will take on the new role of key account manager in GSFM's NSW retail sales team, focusing on its IFA, private bank and family office channels. In addition to Fidante, Higgins has also held business development ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... economy, are the latest events and stats in China. First the stats, and latest China growth stats were mostly firmer: Retail sales growth accelerated to 10.3% in the year to September from 10.1% in the previous month and annual growth in industrial production ...

MetLife pushes for the retail market with new hire

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... MetLife will launch its retail life insurance offer to advisers and brokers next year and has appointed a head of retail sales from AMP to facilitate this process. Matt Lippiatt joins MetLife from AMP, where he was national account manager. He has held ...

Confidence up but will consumers shop?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... it's still early to conclude that this would eventually prompt an increase in household spending. The latest ABS retail sales survey showed retail spending dropped by a bigger-than-expected 0.6% in the month of August. Worse, July's retail figure was ...