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Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... Don't make excuses that someone negotiated better - if you benchmark the results, the gap should be removed. Larisha Jerome, community engagement and project officer, First Nations Foundation Q: Why did you choose a career in financial services? ...

Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... don't think you're strong enough now..." In his semi-annual testimony before the US Congress last week, Fed chair Jerome Powell stressed that it would take some time before the central bank could make "substantial further progress" towards employment ...

Chief economist update: Patience is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... averages 2% over time and longer-term inflation expectations remain well anchored at 2%. In the words of US Fed Chairman Jerome Powell: "We're going to be patient...We'll seek inflation moderately above 2% for some time...The way to achieve credibility ...

Chief economist update: Disappointing jobs results raise Biden's stimulus bid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... rate to 4% or below by year end." And then there's the Fed. In his post-26-27 FOMC meeting press conference, chair Jerome Powell tried to calm markets and prevent a repeat of the taper tantrum that sent bond yields up and equity markets down in 2013. ...

Chief economist update: Taper talks are premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... the record high of 14.8% recorded in April but remains well-below the pre-pandemic level of 3.5%. More telling, Fed chair Jerome Powell thinks that the real rate of unemployment is closer to 10%, also saying: "The ongoing public health crisis continues ...

Chief economist update: USA Inc is under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... the US economy. The Biden administration has proposed a US$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan. US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell assured markets that the central bank would not raise interest rates soon unless it foresees rising inflation or imbalances ...

Boards suffer from disconnect between risk, strategy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... explicitly connect its risk appetite to strategic decisions to make the most of the coming year. Report principal author Jerome Nyssen said the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many of the disruptors anticipated by Australian organisations and introduced ...

Capgemini names new APAC lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... appointment comes alongside two others: Michael Schulte as chief executive of the Northern Europe Strategic Business Unit and Jerome Simeon as chief executive of the Southern Europe Strategic Business Unit. Schulte was previously managing director of ...

Chief economist update: Vaccine optimism sparks AUD resurgence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... enticing investors to buy the Aussie dollar to avail of the premium. On August 27 at the Hole, the US Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, virtually buried the Philips Curve - the inverse correlation between inflation and the unemployment rate - by ...

Chief economist update: A vaccine and a better vaccine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... 64.4% surge from the March low. Similarly, the S&P 500 index has soared by 65.5% from March. Just last week, US Fed chair Jerome Powell told fellow central bankers at the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking that: "The vaccine is certainly good and welcome ...