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Melbourne and Perth to receive a $25m arts education initiative

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... potential. Chair of the Packer Family Foundation Gretel Packer said: "Australia is a vast, dynamic and multi-cultural country. The programs we partner with through our Melbourne and Perth Art Education Initiative, as well as our Western Sydney Arts Initiative ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... overseas reached their highest level in "over a century" (120 years). As at 30 June 2015, 28.2% -- or 6.7 million -- of the country's resident population were born outside Australia. This is just a few percentage point of the 29% peak hit way back in ...

T. Rowe Price names Japan country head

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
T. Rowe Price has named Naoyuki Honda as its new country head for Japan. A thirty-year veteran of the financial services and asset management industries, Honda will join the firm in early May after a filing with Japanese regulators. He will lead T. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... this appears to be good news, the details of the report show this is not the case. This is because the improvement in the country's trade deficit was due to large declines in both exports and imports. Exports dropped by 10.4% to HK$205.5 billion in the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... than previously planned, aiming to bring inflation to target. Mexico trade balance Mexico's external accounts show the country's trade balance swung to a deficit of US$725 in the February from a US$591.5 million surplus in the same month in 2015 on the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... followed a 4.5% contraction in the third quarter. Continued pessimism among Brazilian companies suggests the outlook for the country's labour market remains dim. While business confidence improved for a third consecutive month to 37.4 in March from 37.1 ...

NAB appoints ex-Genesys MD

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... customers. Commenting on his appointment, Steele said "NAB Financial Planning is a great business, with 500 advisers around the country - and I'm really looking forward to continuing to grow the business and keep a strong focus on customers." NAB executive ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... Australia's agricultural production increased by 5.4% to $54 billion despite poor seasonal conditions across much of the country, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The growth in the value of Australia's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... at minus 19 this month. Weak global demand, along with Brexit uncertainty, will continue to provide headwinds for the country's manufacturing sector but would be partly offset by the recent weakness in the British currency. Taiwan export orders Taiwan's ...

Blue Sky and Goldman Sachs partner for student accommodation

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... alternative investment manager has grown its student accommodation development pipeline to more than 3000 beds across the country since it first entered the asset class in 2014. Blue Sky said the asset class in Australia is seen as a highly resilient ...