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American private debt fund eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
A private debt manager with stellar past returns, is eyeing local superannuation funds as it starts to raise for a new fund. Victory Park Capital, headquartered in Chicago, is best known in the US for lending to financial services companies, focused ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... and developing economies (EMDEs) is also expected to remain subdued, continuing a decade of disappointing outcomes." World Bank projections show US economic growth slowing from an estimated 1.6% in 2019 to 1.4% this year - a 0.1 pps downgrade from its ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... number of threats poised to disrupt the already tepid global rally. That's according to the latest report from the World Bank on the global economic outlook for 2020, aptly named "Fragile, Handle with Care". Trade tensions, slowing growth in major economies ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
In its world economic update for October, the International Monetary Fund said that the global economy is in a synchronised slowdown. Growth for 2019 was downgraded again to 3%, its slowest pace since the global financial crisis. "This is a serious ...

Chief economist update: Japan tightens fiscal policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... recently supported by prescriptions from international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) - Japan does ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised forecasts for a synchronised slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..." - Jaws The history of the US-China trade negotiations has followed a pattern ever since it began in 2018 - rhetoric from both sides building hopes for a deal only to be followed by escalating ...

New principal consultants at Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
... Frontier last year, after working at the Reserve Bank of Australia in fixed income trading roles, as a consultant to the World Bank and as an economist for Macquarie Bank. At the same time, Marcus Nelson has moved to a senior consultant role and Claire ...

Facebook to launch own currency

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... internet and their low costs. The tech giant said much of the world's adult population - almost half according to the World Bank - don't have an active bank account, with even more dire numbers for women. "The cost of that exclusion is high - approximately ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... prices is likely to intensify as global demand takes a hit from even weaker economic activity. In its June report, the World Bank recently downgraded its global GDP growth forecasts to 2.6% this year (from 2.9% it predicted in January) and 2.7% (from ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
"Anything that could go wrong will go wrong." - Murphy's law. It seems like it for us, Australians all. The latest (although dated) GDP growth figures showed that domestic economic growth slowed to its slowest pace in a decade (in the midst of the ...