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Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
In a week punctuated by disappointing key stats from the world's major economies, something strange in our neighbourhood happened... Wall Street produced a trifecta. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all closed at record highs on the 11th of August ...

Hunter Hall delivers profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
Hunter Hall delivered an 86.8% boost in statutory after-tax profit to $7.8 million in the year to 30 June 2016. This was driven by major gains in investment income and performance fees - even if funds under management only increased slightly by 1.9% ...

BlackRock publishes staff gender split

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... the industry, the Finanical Times' funds management supplement, FTfm, asked the 15 largest asset managers in the US and Europe to share their diversity statistics. Six companies declined: Vanguard, the world's second-largest asset manager, Fidelity Investments ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
Australian consumer confidence The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index rebounded by 2.0% in August after declining by 3.0% in July. More importantly, at a reading of 101.4, optimists outnumbered pessimists this month. Not surprisingly ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
ANZ job ads The "increased uncertainty following the close federal election on July 2 and the shock decision by the UK to leave the European Union on June 24" is how ANZ's head of Australian economics Felicity Emmett explained the sharp 0.8% drop in ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
Some of the world's major central banks have already started the race even before the opening ceremony of "Rio 2016" on the 3rd of August. Perhaps it was much too early but the European Central Bank (ECB) opted not to start running when at its governing ...

ANZ names chief economist

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... responsible for co-ordinating ANZ's regional economic and financial markets research capability across Asia, New Zealand, Europe and America. He will report to Collins.

Opportunities ahead for Chinese outlet malls

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... 1,000 targeted population was only 3.6 square metres in 2014, less than 1% of the US level and around 10% of the level in Europe. Such figures suggest there is potential to open new outlet malls in undersupplied tier two and tier three cities, which ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
Another stimulus package for Japan Japan has announced a stimulus package containing a raft of infrastructure and welfare measures in yet another attempt to jolt the nation's economy back to life. The package, headlined at A$350 billion if you include ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... are unable to handicap whether central banks will go down this path (although we do not believe it is likely in the US or Europe), we would caution investors about the medium-term impact on asset prices of such action. Initially, investors may react ...