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Future Fund reshuffles investment team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... 2010 and as a member of the investment committee. He previously worked in senior strategy roles in London and Hong Kong with AIG Financial Products and Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, Gilmore worked with both the International Monetary Fund and the Reserve ...

Synchron appoints state manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... AON as a fund administrator in 2000 and spent the next eight years in sales and business development management roles with AIG, AIA Australia and Asteron. Synchron director Don Trapnell said Wallis spent his working life in financial services and has ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... to the rest of the working population, lifting household spending and aiding in the reduction of household debt. The latest AiG performance indices offer good tidings, i.e. further improvement in the labour market. The AiG performance of manufacturing ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... an all-tome record high in October and business confidence remaining above its long-term average (+8 versus +6). The latest AiG performance of manufacturing index's sharp reversal to a reading of 57.3 in November from 51.1 in the previous month also ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... improved sharply as well." But NAB's explanation doesn't jive with the survey conducted by the Australian Industry Group (AiG) in the same month. Instead, while it remained at expansion levels, the AiG performance of manufacturing index declined to 51.1 ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... quarter to 2% in the June quarter - the least since the 1.8% recorded in the December 2009 quarter. If the lead from the latest AiG PMI surveys is any indication, it'll be more of the same, if not worse, in the coming months. The AiG performance of manufacturing ...

Profit margin squeeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
They might be expanding at a slower rate but they're still expanding. The Australian Industry Group's (AiG) performance of manufacturing and services indices both slowed in September from August but remained above the 50 expansion/contraction line. ...

Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... monetary stimulus is likely to be appropriate over the coming months in order to return inflation sustainably to target." The AiG performance of manufacturing index showed activity in Australia's manufacturing sector eased to a reading of 54.2 in September ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... replenished (up to 5 from 3 in May) and "capital expenditure rebounding". This is consistent with the Australian Industry Group's (AiG) performance indices reports that showed the manufacturing (up 0.2 to 55.0 in June), services (3.3 to 54.8) and construction ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... than Estimate 6 for 2015-16" and "Estimate 2 for 2017-18 is $85,436m. This is 6.4% lower than Estimate 2 for 2016-17." The AiG's performance of manufacturing index (also released yesterday) ties these all together. While still in expansion, the index ...