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Chief economist update: Japan still waiting for the sun to rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... economic growth and inflation that are still wobbling from the on-going restriction measures as captured by the latest au Jibun Bank PMI surveys. Preliminary estimates show that Japan's composite PMI eased to a reading of 47.8 in June - the second ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
Inflation? What inflation? We need inflation. While many, if not most, of its central bank peers - led by the Fed -- are pushing back against inflation concerns, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) cannot seem to drive growth in the country's consumer prices ...

AUSIEX launches, announces leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
Commonwealth Bank's former trading platform for financial advisers, now known as AUSIEX, has unveiled its executive lineup after being acquired by a Japanese firm. CommSec Adviser Services (CAS) has rebranded to AUSIEX (Australian Investment Exchange) ...

BlackRock unifies offering, rejigs executives

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... of BlackRock's alpha-seeking strategies, index and iShares offering and whole portfolio services to wealth management, bank and platform clients. Further to this, director of product strategy Eleanor Menniti will take on the newly created role of ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... US's 0.4% GDP expansion over the same one-year period, and far and away from economic contractions in the Eurozone (-1.8%), Japan (-1.8), and the United Kingdom (-6.1%). There'll always be dissenters but, for me, the Morrison government has spent ...

Chief economist update: Recovery flashing hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021
... reading since January 1998 - services sector at 91-month peak and manufacturing at its highest since January 1992. However, in Japan - where infections are rising and a state of emergency re-imposed - the Composite Output Index returned to contraction ...

Tempered positivity post-pandemic: Experts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... we have another crisis, do we go full circle and central banks and governments end up owning the assets like they do in Japan?" Agreeing with Singh, Doyle questioned whether economies have the capacity to respond to future crises in the way they responded ...

More super funds make climate commitments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... seeks to achieve Paris-aligned emissions reductions in Australia by 2030. TelstraSuper, ISPT, U Ethical and Teachers Mutual Bank today joined over a dozen institutional investors including Aware Super, Cbus, IFM Investors and the Queensland Investment ...

Jarden gets market participant licence

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... our clients - from the provision of advice to executing trades directly to markets," Vanderzeil said. The Kiwi investment bank has been on a hiring spree in Australia since October 2020. It recently formed a strategic alliance with Japanese Nomura in ...

Australia is coming back: Frydenberg

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... standards. "As a share of the economy, net debt is around half of that in the UK and US and less than a third of that in Japan. We are better placed than nearly any other country to meet the economic challenges that lie ahead," Frydenberg said. Real ...