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PROFILE: Mercer chief customer officer Renee McGowan

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... accidental entry into superannuation. "I knew nothing about it. Everything about my studies was geared up to work in Asian economies and markets, possibly in Singapore," she says. However, as she finished university in 1997, the Asian financial crisis ...

Bad news on global activity and prices is the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... virtuous cycle, if you will. And if Markit Economics' latest manufacturing PMI updates on three of the world's biggest economies are anything to go by, we can surely do with some virtue of positive sentiment. Consensus expected the manufacturing PMI's ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... their race to the bottom. Yes Virginia, this is the prevailing theme in most central banks' statements in late - their economies are doing fine, but the "global economy" presents the biggest threat to their growth and inflation objectives. This was the ...

ANZ cash profit up, net down

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... performance; corporate banking was "impacted by higher funding costs and competition." "The Australian and New Zealand economies are performing well with low interest and exchange rates supporting the transition to more balanced growth following the ...

Gold starts to glisten (like 2008?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... deflation risks threatening to send already low bond yields even lower. But like the outlook for all other asset classes and economies, whether gold's ascent persists depends largely on central bank responses... and market confidence on the effectiveness ...

BetaShares goes global with third managed risk product

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... generally consisting of at least 1,500 of the largest companies listed on the stock exchanges of the world's major developed economies. It has been specifically designed to meet the needs of SMSFs and baby-boomers, who are seeking global equity exposure ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... of oil and other commodities. In turn, low commodity prices could trigger financial stresses in commodity-exporting economies, particularly in vulnerable emerging market economies, and for commodity-producing firms in many countries. Should any of these ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... Journal (WSJ) that, "Recent developments reinforce the case for watchful waiting" because slow growth in the developed economies and "stresses in emerging markets" could spill over into America. " "This translates into weaker exports, business investment ...

Strength in (A$) weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... slightly lower pace than earlier expected" as conditions have become more difficult for a number of emerging market economies" and as "China's growth rate has continued to moderate".... and even though "The decline in Australia's terms of trade...continued" ...

Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... the journey to success could be fraught with challenges for investors. "We're very clearly in a world where, even as economies recover, we're going to have to get used a slower rate of growth than we might want. As we move through 2016 we expect to see ...