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Former Mercer director joins MGP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... McAlister has joined MGP's board of directors. She will also chair its audit, risk and compliance committee. MGP chair Don Sharp said McAlister's expertise will be invaluable if the planned RSE acquisition goes ahead. In addition to MGP, McAlister ...

Custodians oversee heightened domestic equity trades

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... initiative by the ASX, and fundamentally important to the industry. ACSA is engaged on all aspects of the transition, with a sharp focus on functionality, improved efficiency, features of the underlying technology, systemic impact on the industry operating ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... heat of the greenback's appreciation as the Fed continues its policy "normalisation" drive. The chart below shows the sharp descent in emerging market equities since the middle of this year - down 6.6% compared to the 3.1% positive return of developed ...

Global equities fund purges tobacco, fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
An international equities fund that holds about $300 million of Aussie insto money is purging itself clean of all investments in tobacco and fossil fuels. Vontobel is a Swiss asset manager with $167 billion in assets under management. About 11.4% of ...

Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... the start of the year, core inflation sped up to 15.1% from 12.2%. This is hardly surprising given the Turkish lira's sharp depreciation. What would also not be surprising is an eventual downturn in Turkey's economic growth as a consequence of ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... quarter from the nine-month low of 4.4% in the previous quarter ended five straight quarters of falling jobless rate. The sharp and sequential erosion in business confidence since January this year (-19 reading) to a nine month low -44.9 in July suggests ...

Royal Commission work impeded: Hayne

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... of those events. "The claims that were made in respect of the last class of documents in board packs after 2015 stand in sharp contrast with the fact that similar documents for which no claims were made were contained in earlier board packs." He said ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... 3.6% in the first) while growth in imports slowed to 0.5% from 3.0% in the March quarter. However, inventories subtracted a sharp one percentage point to GDP. But this is actually good news for the coming quarter. The drawdown in inventories in the June ...

Chief economist update: A pretty picture of the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... part-time jobs slowed to 13,500 in June (from 13,800 in May) but this was more than offset by the more stable and permanent sharp 13,400 jump in full-time positions in June (after May's 8600 addition). These pretty-ful set of numbers have unsurprisingly ...

Impact investing reports sharp growth

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
The value of Australian impact investments quadrupled since mid-2015, according to the peak industry body representing responsible, ethical and impact investors. Latest Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) research shows investments ...