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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
Australia retail sales It hasn't been since January this year that we saw retail spending increase at this monthly rate. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that retail sales grew by 0.4% in the month of August - higher than the ...

New director at QIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Institutional fund manager QIC is welcoming a new director this month. Joining the QIC board for a three-year term is Simone Desmarchelier. She has more than 20 years' experience as an independent adviser in Australia and Europe, specialising in investment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
Australia ANZ job ads The latest ANZ job ads survey shows that the total number of job advertisements fell by 0.3% in the month of September following the strong 1.7% jump in the previous month. The year-on-year growth in job ads slowed to 3.7% last ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australia private sector credit Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) figures showed that the annual growth in private sector credit slowed from 6.0% in July to 5.8% in August - the slowest rate since October 2014. Except for the bumps in December 2015 and ...

Invesco adds to property team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
Invesco Real Estate (IRE) has appointed an acquisitions analyst to its Australian team. Louis O'Loughlin joined IRE's Sydney team on 26 September and will work closely with manager of acquisitions Tim Meurer and manager of investments Matt Starr. In ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
US GDP The final estimate of US real GDP showed the economy expanding at an annualised rate of 1.4% in the second quarter. This represents an upgrade from the second estimate's 1.1% growth and better than expectations for a 1.3% gain. While personal ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
US durable goods orders The latest update on total new durable goods orders could easily be taken as a positive for, despite a flat (0% growth) outcome in August from July, this was better than market expectations for a 1.9% decline and could be attributed ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
US consumer confidence The Conference Board's consumer confidence index jumped to 104.1 in September from an upwardly revised 101.8 in the previous month. This is better than consensus expectations for a dip to 99.0 and is the highest level since the ...

Zurich vet joins SuiteBox

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Zurich's former head of sales strategies life and investments has taken up a new role at subscription-based mobile office software provider SuiteBox. Andy Marshall, who worked with Zurich - initially as a regional sales manager - from 2012 to September  ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... "live" month for the Fed - so as not to be accused of taking sides - December is... the Fed said so. More so that the September "dot plot" indicates one rate hike this year. Sure, sure... plotting the dots gives us greater certainty as to where US interest ...