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Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... should help alleviate weak household finances and perhaps, stir stronger consumption (if not used to pay off high household debt). I. Private investment increased by 0.5% over the March quarter, not strong enough to fully compensate for the 0.9% decline ...

Daido Life buys stake in life insurer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... relationship with Daido Life," he said. Powell added Integrity Life currently has access to over $180 million equity and debt capital. Daido Life representative director and president Minoru Kudo said: "We admire and share Integrity Life's values ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... 2019...One continuing source of uncertainty is the outlook for household consumption. Household income has been growing slowly and debt levels are high." "Employment has grown strongly over the past year, although growth has slowed over recent months...Wages ...

BetaShares launches fixed-rate corporate bond ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... income it means that companies are rewarded by receiving the highest allocation of investor capital simply by issuing more debt," BetaShares chief executive Alex Vynokur said. "CRED, on the other hand, invests in a portfolio of investment grade corporate ...

$26 billion real estate group shuffles portfolio

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... merger, the company has sold $1.9 billion of assets at a 2.1% premium to book value, with the proceeds going towards reducing debt and higher return opportunities, according to Vicinity chief executive and managing director Grant Kelley. "Building on ...

Australia should consider Islamic finance to bridge infrastructure gap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Australian infrastructure with the lifeblood it needs," Yassine said. "Australians who think it may be hard to source Islamic debt need only look at the UK, which in 2014 became the first Western country to issue an Islamic bond, otherwise known as a ...

Findex launches debt advisory business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
Findex has expanded into debt advisory services and appointed a former St George executive to lead the business. At St George, Ben Upton was industry lead for emerging markets, having been a senior business banking manager at NAB prior to that. Commenting ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... general equity market anxiety that has befallen most global financial markets in the second half of May or its ballooning debt, or selling on news. It could be all of the above, including selling on news. According to the Australian Financial Review ...

Pengana partners with credit boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... Australia and the US, sourced from traditional non-bank lenders as well as fintechs. It currently invests in senior and mezzanine debt in assets like short-term mortgages, small business loans, invoice finance, equipment leases, consumer installment ...

Outlook darkens for bank stocks

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
Major bank stocks could tumble up to 40% if the correction in the housing market gets more disorderly, UBS analysts led by Jonathan Mott said in a research note dated May 30. However, this "credit crunch" is not yet UBS' base case, even though it ...