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Industry veterans recognised

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... community. Kathryn Fagg, a board member for the Reserve Bank was recognised for services to business and finance, central banking, logistics and manufacturing sectors - as well as for her work in elevating women. Carol Schwartz, who is also on the Reserve ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... hit. Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda already expressed his concerns when he joined the ECB Forum on Central Banking held at Sintra, Portugal on 18-20 June: "The indirect impact on the Japanese economy could be quite significant...if this ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... it's already worrying the world's biggest central banks, which expressed their concerns at the ECB Forum on Central Banking held at Sintra, Portugal on 18-20 June. US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell: "Changes in trade policy could cause us to have ...

Ex-RBA Governor joins Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
... developing Australia's successful inflation targeting framework for monetary policy, in addition to influencing central banking internationally. In welcoming Stevens, Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank chair Peter Warne described him as an internationally ...

ANZ director retires after nine years

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... Division of the Order of Australia for his "service to the stabilisation of the Australian financial system, to central banking, and to the operation of monetary and economic policy in both domestic and international spheres." ANZ chair David Gonski ...

Future Fund puts in another strong year

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... success, which has been recently recognised by receiving the sovereign investor of the year award at the 2016 Central Banking Awards, It is also considering ways to continue as a permanent fixture after the government is allowed to drawdown on the assets ...

Future Fund awarded sovereign investor of 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... decision not to increase risk to chase returns in 2015, collecting sovereign investor of the year at the 2016 Central Banking Awards. Managing director of the Future Fund, David Neal, said fund had to make certain it was not brought in to financial crisis ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... come out in early June" - he did none of that when he delivered his keynote address to the ECB's annual Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal last night. There were no ifs, ands, ors... nor buts. No more "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... bond yields push even risk- averse investors toward equities". "In a survey of 60 central bankers this month by Central Banking Publications and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, 23 percent said they own shares or plan to buy them. The Bank of Japan ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... Virginia. The ECB rate hike rationale explained. The decision to raise interest rates is in keeping true to its central banking objective of contributing to economic growth in the region by keeping inflation expectations "anchored" to its 2 per cent ...