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Economic recap: Week to November 19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... curse du jour that is rising inflation has raised volatility in the bond and equity markets by virtue of the anticipated central bank policy responses to keep the tide of rising prices at bay. Some central banks have already raised interest rates, others ...

Economic recap: Week to November 12

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... materially higher than it is currently. This is likely to take some time. The board is prepared to be patient, with the central forecast being for underlying inflation to be no higher than 2.5% at the end of 2023 and for only a gradual increase in wages ...

Kelly+Partners to acquire firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2021
... tuck-in acquisitions. Earlier in the year, the group made a tuck-in acquisition of a financial services group on the NSW Central Coast. A Kelly+Partners subsidiary acquired a 51% stake in the group which includes private wealth management, life insurance ...

Hong Kong REIT buys Queen Victoria Building

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... purchased a 50% interest in Queen Victoria Building, The Strand Arcade, and The Galeries - all retail buildings in Sydney's central business district. The transaction has been valued at $538.2 million. Link REIT's investment manager in Australia is EG ...

Economic recap: Week to November 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... our July forecast, it's higher for longer." Inflation, inflation, inflation. Financial markets' worrying about central banks worrying about inflation have pushed up short-term bond yields that, in turn, put pressure on equity markets. For instance ...

Citi Securities Services, SimCorp sign deal

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2021
... efficiency." HESTA recently appointed SimCorp's Dimension as a Service to consolidate its investment data into one central location including business intelligence and a data warehouse.

Wealthwise acquires holistic advice firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021
... Giles in 1987 and was most recently part of ClearView Financial Advice. The business will rebrand to Wealthwise Cockburn Central following the acquisition. This marks Wealthwise's 10th transaction in as many years, and follows a period of consolidation ...

AMP officially exits life market

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
... demutualising and listing in 1998. The company is exiting life insurance after a 171-year history of life cover being central to the business.

Economic recap: Week to October 29

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
... year (from 3.3% in the June quarter) - both more than the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's (RBNZ) remit requiring the central bank to keep inflation within the 1% to 3%. What's the RBNZ to do? Raise interest rates of course to slow consumer spending ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
It wasn't so long ago - before the COVID-19 pandemic struck to be precise - that every other central bank around the planet were hopin' and wishin' and prayin' for consumer price inflation to, at the very least, move higher to within ...