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And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... Chinese yuan will formally join the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound in the International Monetary Fund's basket of reserve currencies known as Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) come 1 October 2016. Anti-climax because the IMF's ...

Banking and Finance Oath reshuffles board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... career in the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and has also worked for the Commonwealth Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008 for his services to financial regulation. Also joining ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... Today, it is increasing slowly and has only hit 1.5%," Goldman Sachs Asset Management chief investment officer of international equity Suneil Mahindru explains. This has changed the manager's approach over the last few months. Mahindru, who is also the ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... speak. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer reportedly "told a group on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru" that the Fed will raise interest rates this year. But (of course there's a but, it's Fedspeak), this is ...

Seniors weigh in on national tax discussion

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... ensure it remains sustainable and equitable." In its latest economic assessment of Australia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said any changes to Australia's tax and superannuation system would need to regard the country's "already highly-progressive ...

Aussie pension policy needs careful adjustment: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Australia's complex superannuation system disproportionately benefits higher-income earners and "undermines the progressivity of the income tax system." The IMF's latest economic assessment of Australia says ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... "Australia will be the worst-hit advanced economy from slowing Chinese investment growth, according to International Monetary Fund research. Only Iran, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Zambia and Chile would suffer bigger effects on their economies." (Australian ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... and has offices in Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Newport Beach and New York, at a time when other local international equities managers have found it tough going. It also has an enviable grip on the adviser market - some 10,000 of them invest ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... misalignments." "We will refrain from competitive devaluations, and resist all forms of protectionism." But the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had to name names, defending the yuan's recent depreciation (mandated as it was) as a natural consequence ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... of these are "large businesses, quite sophisticated and with revenue sizes three times the size of some of their international counterparts." He adds that all of these businesses reflect Platinum's view that the rise of the middle class is the most important ...