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Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
The stats are out and they reveal that Australia's inflation genie is still inside the box. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the June quarter ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... premise is that were it not for the RBA's concern over adding fuel to overheating property prices (at the time), the Australian central bank would have already cut rates mainly due to the stagnation in wages growth which is a negative for both inflation ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... premise is that were it not for the RBA's concern over adding fuel to overheating property prices (at the time), the Australian central bank would have already cut rates mainly due to the stagnation in wages growth which is a negative for both inflation ...

Former ANZ GM joins NAB

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... divisions, covering Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Motton most recently served as general manager of ANZ's Australian business banking division, and was previously chief of staff to ANZ's former chief executive Mike Smith. Highlighting ...

Global banking ethics standard coming to Australia

HARRISON WORLEY  |  SATURDAY, 26 MAY 2018
... professional institute with an industry-wide code of conduct for individuals. "FINSIA is advocating for the establishment of Australian industry standards for individual competency and conduct. FINSIA has also announced it will launch new professional ...

Spaceship beefs up senior management

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... Group's chief compliance officer, ASIC's company secretary and has been on advisory panels to ASIC, AUSTRAC and other Australian regulators. The appointments are in response to Spaceship and trustee Tidswell Financial Services' April 10 ASIC bans on ...

Mainstream adds former Commonwealth Bank GM to board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... announcement earlier this month that Link Fund Solutions chief Andy Harrison would move to the fund administrator as Australian chief executive in October. Harrison will be responsible for enhancing service delivery to existing clients, replacing Nick ...

Challenger chief becomes FSC deputy chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Before Challenger, he held senior roles at J.P. Morgan, Macquarie and Bankers Trust. The FSC also appointed CBA executive general manager, Commonwealth Private, Marianne Perkovic as a director, replacing ...

Actuaries Institute names chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... general manager corporate affairs and sustainability at Westpac and spent 10 years as the chief executive of the Australian Bankers' Association. Grace said it is an exciting time to be an actuary in Australia as the profession is increasingly recognised ...

FIIG Securities head of intermediaries departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... executive Stephen Knight and chief financial officer Christine Feldmanis. Knight is also a board member of OneVue, the Australian Office of Financial Management, and is the chairman of the Commonwealth Government Affordable Housing Implementation Taskforce. ...