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Zurich grows life risk distribution team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... Financial Services has boosted the size of its life risk sales team with a key promotion and eleven appointments across the country. Nathan Taggart has been promoted to the role of head of strategic development and joins the distribution leadership team ...

Vehicle sales hit the roadblock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
... purchase tax on vehicles with 1.6-litre engines or smaller - on 31 December 2016 put the brakes on vehicle sales in the country. Despite softening the blow - Beijing announced last 15 December that small car buyers would still receive a 25% sales tax ...

Lifted by external demand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
... the quarter, down from a 0.3% increase in Q3. The recent wages report shows why. Average monthly cash earnings in the country increased by a mere 0.1% in the year to December, down from 0.5% in the previous month and much less than market expectations ...

Mexican pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... Trump's rhetoric about "building a wall along the US-Mexican border"...and making Mexico pay for that wall is hurting the country of tequilas. The first transmission mechanism of the hurt was through the currency. The Mexican peso dropped from 17.63 ...

Buying American

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... with winning." (Donald Trump) POTUS appears to be fulfilling another of his campaign promises if the latest stats on the country's international trade are anything to go by. The US trade deficit narrowed to US$44.3 billion in the month of December, down ...

Little pay, little spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... particularly with respect to the Bank of Japan's goal of reviving inflation in the economy. Average monthly cash earnings in the country increased by a mere 0.1% in the year to December, down from 0.5% in the previous month and much less than market ...

Infocus scores exclusive referral to 450 offices nationwide

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... firm. NYSE-listed H&R Block, which opened its doors in Australia in 1971, employs over 2000 tax consultants throughout the country and prepares more than 800,000 tax returns each year. Under the referral arrangement, H&R Block accountants will refer ...

India looking good in Trump's world

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... India's is primarily fuelled by domestic consumption - equal to 60% of its total GDP. The economic mix, Siva said, makes the country less vulnerable to Trump's protectionism and more attractive to foreign investors. "Enormous domestic growth sets India ...

L1 Capital fund recommended

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... preservation. We look forward to providing advisors access to what we believe is the highest quality long short strategy in the country."

TelstraSuper rolls out digital makeover

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
From Snapchat to super-chat? TelstraSuper, the country's largest corporate super fund, is announcing the first phase of its digital transformation to appeal to its tech-savvy millennial and retiree fund members. This morning the fund launched a new ...