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Chief economist update: Phase one deal signed, sealed and delivered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
The highly anticipated US-China 'phase one' trade agreement has finally come to pass - signed, sealed and delivered on January 15. The deal involves China committing to buy at least an additional US$200 billion worth of US goods and services ...

Gold lifts as US, Iran tensions escalate

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... on Friday last week. US gold futures hit US$1590.90 per ounce on Monday as investors rushed to hedge their wealth against macro uncertainty. It's the precious metal's highest level since 2 April 2013 when it reached US$1604.3. Following the assassination ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) kept monetary policy settings unchanged at its 12 December Governing Council meeting. "...the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the ...

Aberdeen appoints head of Australian fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... Susquehanna International Group. Earlier this year, ASI said it would integrate the Australian fixed income team, especially the macro team, into global and regional investment teams. This included aligning several global managers more formally with ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
Financial Standard had been calling for it, central banks have, and now it's the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In its latest bi-annual economic global economic report released this month, the OECD maintained its Australian ...

Life risk insurance not profitable: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... expense line and investment budgets and, understandably, require a lot of management and board focus," Kells said. "The macro overlay of an uncertain economic environment - with implications on both sides of the balance sheet - adds to the difficulties." ...

The AUD is key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
I painted a picture of the latest domestic surveys and stats last week arguing that the RBA would need to cut interest rates some more to try and reverse the trend deterioration in the domestic economy. In it I briefly touched on the Australian dollar ...

Challenger head of retail departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... previous high-profile hire at the boutique. In June, Yarra poached Ellerston's chief economist Tim Toohey as its head of macro and strategy.

WTW launches first Australian-domiciled fund, names RE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... low-return environment where equity investors are looking for a stronger and more sustainable source of excess returns. "We know macro events are weighing on markets - trade wars, Brexit, recessionary influences, potential quantitative easing - leading ...

Chief economist update: Good news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas has come early... and Thanksgiving too. Wall Street benchmark equity indices rallied at the close of trading last week: The S&P 500 added 1.0% to a new all-time high; the Nasdaq closed 1.1% up but not ...