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IRESS appoints insto broking head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... across institutional and online, before this most recent promotion. Kirsty Gross, IRESS' managing director of financial markets in Australia and New Zealand welcomed Vidinis' appointment, noting his industry expertise. "I congratulate George on his appointment. ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... etcetera. Figure out Trump and we can figure out where the global economy and fiscal and monetary polices, and financial markets, are headed... at least, until 2020.

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... was due to a host of issues including the partial government shutdown, the impact of tariffs, instabilities in financial markets, the global slowdown, and the lack of clarity about monetary policies. Aside from the direct economic impact from these various ...

Vale John Bogle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... than US$441 billion in assets. After stepping down from the Vanguard board in 1999, Bogle created the Bogle Financial Markets Resource Centre in 1999, to analyse issues affecting mutual funds and financial markets through speeches, public articles and ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... disorderly exit has increased with this vote. While we do not want this to happen, we will be prepared for it." Financial markets appear to be prepared too. There wasn't any major upheaval in the UK's financial markets after last night's ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
About this time last year, financial markets were awash with speculation the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would follow the Fed's lead and start implementing a monetary policy exit strategy. Speculations started to gain prominence as early as January 2018 ...

Global iShares lead promoted, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... investing businesses since 2011. He first joined the fund giant in 2004 to assist in the establishment of the Financial Markets Advisory Group. Succeeding Wiedman is head of US wealth advisory Salim Ramji, reporting to BlackRock president Rob Kapito. ...

Fed steady with a slight chance of a rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... monetary policy beyond this meeting... participants expressed that recent developments, including the volatility in financial markets and the increased concerns about global growth, made the appropriate extent and timing of future policy firming less ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... must be wrong with the US and/or it has sacrificed its independence and kowtowed to President Donald Trump. But financial markets cannot have their cake and eat it too. The Fed disappointed expectations for only a single rate hike next year, its dot ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) delivered on its promise. While it kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit facility rate at -0.4%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% - at its December 13 Governing Council meeting, it also confirmed ...