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Super fund private equity demand growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... overseas investors, she warned. Allen, who is "quite impassioned" about the impact FIRB is having, likened its significance to Brexit and Trump. Not only are investors incurring significant fees, there is now a huge time difference in approving deals ...

Brexit-proof?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... manufacturing PMI to 54.2 in March from 54.5 in the previous month provides further evidence of the economy's resilience to Brexit uncertainty. The latest reading might be the lowest level in four months but it's also the eight straight month that it's ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... guard against: political (elections in France and Germany); Trump (trade protectionism); renewed terrorist attacks; and Brexit.

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
It's official. It's signed, sealed and delivered. Making good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations ...

Price-pressured

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... the year to February - the fastest annual rate since June 2014 - from 1.6% in the previous month and 1.4% in June 2016 (Brexit vote). And there's more upward pressure in the pipeline with prices at the factory gates (PPI-output) rising by 3.7% in the ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... macro-economy, Kristin and the "some others" may have a point. The gloom and doom predicted before and straight after the Brexit vote on 23 June has, so far, not materialised. On the contrary, the economy even strengthened. UK GDP expanded by 2.0% in ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... continues growing, this is beyond Australia's control. So are the risks of "Shifts in US monetary policy, uncertainties about Brexit, rising protectionism and revisions to China's exchange rate policy, may catalyse global exchange-rate volatility that ...

Good credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... the single currency area despite the lingering political uncertainty - elections in France, the Netherlands and Germany - Brexit and continuing terrorist threat in the region. Only last week, Markit Economics printed that "The eurozone economy moved ...

Assets mispriced by monetary policy: Nikko

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... policy to stimulate growth. At the moment, though, given global uncertainty about the ramifications of Donald Trump's and Brexit, Clark suggested a "humble" investment approach. "In an environment where we are just as likely to get it right as wrong ...

J.P. Morgan bullish on several asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... area is continuing to do well with about 2% growth and above trend for the region - an outstanding outcome considering Brexit, according to Auld.