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Pengana Capital distribution executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... executive leading the international fund's distribution efforts, exiting not long after two portfolio managers left in March. Joy Yacoub was the executive director of business strategy and distribution, a spokesperson confirmed to Financial Standard ...

Chief economist update: The UK's going OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... headline inflation rose to 1.5% in April (from 0.7% in the previous month); core inflation quickened to 1.3% from 1.1% in March. The IHS Markit/CIPS PMI survey found that: "May data pointed to the fastest increase in average cost burdens across the UK ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory against the virus voided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... improve despite the withdrawal of the government's JobKeeper scheme. The country's unemployment rate fell from 5.7% in March to 5.5% in April - just 0.2 percentage points (or 33,000 people) above the start of the pandemic and 2.0 percentage points ...

Former adviser charged with $3.3m fraud

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... clients between May 2017 and March 2020 as an authorised representative of Sentinel. The police kicked off investigations in March 2020, when the North Shore Police Area Command received reports of an alleged fraud committed against an 86-year-old woman ...

Chief economist update: China and Australia's interdependence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
... Reuters points out, "imports by the rest of the world are rising, with ex-China arrivals estimated at 41.25 million tonnes in March, up from 34.43 million in February and 35.76 million in January" - a likely offshoot of the strengthening global recovery ...

Chief economist: What JobKeeper cliff?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
... business confidence surging to a record high reading of 26 in April from the already above long-term average readings of 17 in March and 19 in Feb (long-term average is 6). More recently, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that the country's ...

Chief economist: The wages of slow wages growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... recovering faster than expected and the labour market has improved significantly. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.6% in March after jumping to 7.5% in July last year -- its highest level in 22 years. But it would take some time (perhaps, a long while) ...

Chief economist update: Confidently sustaining the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... improvement to record highs in the index's sub-components: Trading increased to a reading of 40 in April from 35 in March and 24 in February. Profitability scored 33 in April from 25 in March and 21 in February. Employment rose to 22 in April from ...

Chief economist: The path to normality

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... for a 25.0% pick up. Industrial production rose by 9.8% over the same period, down from the 14.1% annual growth rate in March and missing expectations for a 10.0% gain. Fixed asset investment increased by 19.9% in the year to April, down from 25.6% in ...

New Martin Gilbert vehicle strikes first deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... investments across the sector and to bring active management to such opportunities," Gilbert said at the time. Consequently, in March AssetCo announced a change in strategy. Having previously been a provider of outsourced firefighting services, AssetCo ...