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Investment Trends hires head of strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... Recep Peker stepped down to support the business as an adviser, while launching his own firm Empower Business Advisory. Irene Guiamatsia, who previously worked at Investment Trends and subsequently ASIC, replaced Peker. In November 2020, the firm named ...

Investment Trends names new head of research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... Investment Trends has announced a new head of research as Recep Peker steps down to support the business in an advisory capacity. Irene Guiamatsia will step into the role, bringing two decades of experience spanning academia, market research and financial ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... a pandemic exactly a month after on 11 March 2020. No need to narrate and describe what happened thereafter. You, I and Irene and our neighbours went through what happened next - social isolation, lockdowns, panic buying (of toilet papers, mostly) - ...

Chief economist update: Australian capex in COVID-19's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... the September quarter from minus 8.9% in June and 8.3% in March - all under COVID-19's shadow. But before you, I and Irene start spreading the news that the "sky is falling", know that the survey was taken before Australia, in essence, successfully ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... one million Australians still out of work." Ha ha ha. Opposing for the sake of opposing, I say. Wouldn't you, I and Irene and our uncles be better off employed than getting government handouts that, in time, we would have to pay for anyway in terms ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... has been in deflation. "The previous times were in 1962 and 1997-98," the ABS said. For sure and for certain, you, I and Irene and our uncles love a bargain. This is the reason why online trade has taken off (they're cheaper than bricks and mortar ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 takes second crack at China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... new cases of coronavirus infections brings home the point that it's not over until a vaccine is found or you, I and Irene develops immunity. The second wave has prompted the government to reimpos tough restriction measures. Here goes social isolation ...

Chief economist update: No cheers as RBA hits inflation target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... why let the facts get in the way of a good story? Under normal circumstances and just looking at the numbers, you, I and Irene would assume that the acceleration in consumer prices in the March quarter is the start of something good - consumers are willing ...

A coronavirus-bitten cat bounce?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... (IPA) released a video saying: "Enough is enough. It is time to begin to end this lockdown now." Sure, sure... you and I and Irene want to go back to our normal lives the soonest. But it won't help if we don't finish our course of antibiotics ...

Chief economist update: Australia's gentle turning point to turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... Non-Manufacturing PMI in China plunging to a record low reading of 29.6 in February 2020 from 54.1 in the previous month. You, I and Irene might have been too busy panic buying toilet paper that we become oblivious to the counter-measures planned and ...