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Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
Given the US equity market's reaction to the latest US Federal Reserve missive, one would think that Wall Street is against strong(er) growth. All major benchmark indices - DJIA, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 - closed lower after the Fed announced ...

AMP adds legal expert to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
AMP is welcoming a legal and regulatory expert to its board in an effort to rebuild the company. John O'Sullivan joins AMP as a non-executive director effective 20 June 2018. He was a partner at Freehill Hollingdale & Page (now Herbert Smith Freehills) ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... it's good for them and for the rest of us because easing tensions in the Asian region should - as the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 did - produce a peace dividend that should lift all boats. However, given the two personalities' unpredictable ...

AMP Capital appoints new chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
AMP Capital has named Vanessa Wallace's successor a month after she resigned as the board chair. Wallace is being replaced by the chair of AMP's responsible entity and trustee boards, John Nesbitt. Nesbitt was previously Suncorp Bank's chief ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... other nations, the Eurozone would be elated by the peace dividend this would bring - much like it did back when the Berlin Wall crumbled - and even more so given the European Central Bank's (ECB) concern over the "the threat of increased protectionism." ...

Chief economist update: BOE fails market expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
... inflation measure hardly budged at 2.1% in April - the same as March but lower than market expectations for an increase to 2.2%. Wall Street loved it. The S&P 500 index climbed by 0.9% and the yield on 10-year US Treasuries fell by four basis points ...

Three AMP directors step down

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Three non-executive directors have chosen to resign from AMP's board. While Patty Akopiantz will serve until the end of the year, Vanessa Wallace and Holly Kramer will step down from the board ahead of AMP's annual general meeting. Wallace will also ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... could be one big step for Korea, Asia and the world towards de-nuclearisation and peace. Just like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a positive outcome would bring a "peace dividend" to the world with positive implications for investment markets. ...

High profile adviser under fire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... public duty to provide assistance to the Royal Commission." "If someone with my educational and occupational background hits a wall when endeavouring to engage proper disciplinary processes, what hope does someone without those have?" Editor's note ...

Chief economist update: Malcolm puts agricuture in the middle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... of them) in the banking and financial services industry. Malcolm must be thanking his lucky stars that being in Berlin, a wall has put some distance between him and irate Australian banking and financial services customers (hey, that's all of us). Too ...