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New hire at Auscap Asset Management

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... portfolio manager Tim Carleton said. "It is wonderful to add to the team someone with her personal qualities and financial markets and listed products experience. We have no doubt she will become an integral part of the business." Since inception, Auscap ...

How women get ahead in financial services: Executive

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... don't like it, get out," she said. Siobhan advises women looking to get into the profession to be curious about financial markets, open up a share trading account and start investing. This is an extract of a news story first published in the latest issue ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
Financial markets don't track the ADP private payrolls report as closely as they do the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment report but if ADP's estimate for February is any guide, the official US non-farm payrolls report (due out at the end ...

Women key to finance sector culture issues

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... according to AustralianSuper chair Heather Ridout. Ridout told this morning's ASX panel discussion on diversity in financial markets that giving women better opportunities to undertake leadership positions can be key to solving the culture issues a lot ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... could potentially require us to raise rates rapidly sometime down the road, which in turn could risk disrupting financial markets and pushing the economy into recession... I therefore continue to have confidence in our judgment that a gradual removal ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
Perhaps we'll have clearer skies by Wednesday. One that will affect economies and financial markets everywhere. Wednesday (or Tuesday night US time), is the day when US President Donald Trump speaks before the joint-session of Congress, where he, hopefully ...

TCorp appoints new balance sheet head

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... for TCorp loans and grow the company's investor-base. She will report to the newly-appointed general manager, financial markets, Paul Verschuer. Trigona currently manages an annual TCorp funding program of $4 billion, and has been with the company for ...

Boring but the trend is our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
The world of financial markets and tea-leaves reading would be a boring place if not for "seasonality adjusted" estimates of economic statistics, especially ones that go up one month and down the next and/or beat expectations one month and disappoint ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... 2017 corresponds with the conclusion of the US Federal Reserve's two-day meeting (14-15 March) - the day when financial markets expect the Fed to give interest rates another gentle lift. Rate hike speculations gathered momentum after Fed Chair Janet ...

TCorp unveils new leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
... investment officer. In addition to Brentnall, TCorp has also welcomed Paul Verschuer as its new general manager, financial markets; formerly at Westpac as general manager business bank, responsible for the specialized finance business. Verschuer spent ...