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PROFILE: EISS chief executive Alex Hutchison

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... investigative expertise following a number of corporate collapses, especially in the property trust arena. "That was a pretty good experience, working on a number of major cases. One at the time was the Rural Property Trust collapse where we got a $68 ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... herself said the economy and specifically the jobs market still has some weak points to surmount. "The market views it as pretty dovish," Brent Schutte, market strategist at BMO Global Asset Management, said of Yellen's comments. "She emphasised more ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... points above its session lows. "The stocks were very weak the first hours and then they were able in the midday to stage a pretty good comeback," said Mace Blicksilver, director of Marblehead Asset Management. He said that surging US Treasury yields ...

Van Eck goes local on EM fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... we change? Last year EM growth was disappointing. Now it's beginning not to disappoint. "Commodity prices have declined pretty dramatically and appear to be stabilising, and a lot of the asset prices that we're particularly attracted to have overreacted ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Kelaher started practicing law shortly after graduating with a bachelor of law and economics at Monash University. "I decided pretty early on that it wasn't to my liking," he explains. Instead, he decided to explore the other side of his degree. Through ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... two weeks. Dow member Intel stock lost 1.6 per cent. Art Hogan, chief market strategist, said Monday's economic data was "pretty positive" on the whole. Reports showed higher construction spending and higher personal incomes in April, but lower consumer ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued its provisional first quarter 2015 estimates of OECD growth last week but I'm pretty sure it's now getting some attention. The OECD's provisional estimate shows that the combined industrialised countries' GDP ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... fact is that the RBA just cannot compete with QE-ing central banks. Is Ben suggesting what I think he's suggesting? "I'm pretty confident [quantitative easing programs] have been effective, and, at least so far, they haven't had many of the bad side-effects ...

Market lower in broad sell-off

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... dropping almost 16 per cent. Revamped technology company Hills Group firmed 0.5 cents to 62.5 cents as chief executive Ted Pretty made a sudden exit from the company. On Wall Street in the US on Tuesday, stocks fell sharply on a strengthening US dollar ...

Hard landing in China could trip Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... said. Fenton alerted that in China "there are real risks there that the slowdown in growth becomes a hard landing. That has pretty serious consequences for Australia." The end of the mining boom "is affecting everything, from hairdressers and baristas ...