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Japanese consumers a tad more confident

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... below the levels reached after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assumed leadership back in December 2012 and those following the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) launch of QQE. The slight improvement in confidence could have been in response to the BOJ's surprise but ...

China's low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... and slowing growth problem to the rest of us. The good news is that low-flation provides Central Command and the People's Bank of China (PBOC) scope to enact counter-measures - fiscal and monetary policies - to turn around the slowing boat of China.

Macquarie makes bid for listed property portal

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
Macquarie has made a bid to acquire Onthehouse, a popular online real estate research portal listed on the ASX. The bid would see the banking group (via subsidiary PIQ1) and 77VSV acquire 100% of Onthehouse capital at $0.755 per share. Because two Onthehouse ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... all in the first week of the first month of 2016. To be sure, news headlines at year's start weren't encouraging: The World Bank (WB) downgraded its global growth forecast for 2016 to 2.9% from 3.3% (predicted last June); there's renewed geo-political ...

Choice of super fund won't always work: REST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... Australia (ISA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) have commissioned a review by former Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor and Treasury Secretary Bernie Fraser to lead the development of a best practice governance code ...

NAS searching for new EGM

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) chair and National Australia Bank (NAB) general manager David Knights has been appointed as the acting head of NAB's Asset Servicing business. The appointment follows the resignation of NAS executive ...

Custodian appoints new APAC head

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... Asia-Pacific. The internal appointment sees Philippe BenoA(R)t move in to the APAC role, succeeding Lawrence Au who remains with the bank as executive adviser and begins his retirement planning. Au will have strategic oversight on selected key client ...

Martin Currie completes PK Investment Management deal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
... profits have grown at the same pace and thus valuations are not as stretched as might be expected. With supportive central bank and government policies in place, allied to improving corporate governance helping drive further balance sheet efficiency ...

Financial services among top taxpayers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Financial services firms are paying some of Australia's highest tax bills as a percentage of their total income according to data released by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) yesterday. The measure highlighted that six financial services companies were ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Global fund manager IFM Investors has sold Australian clean energy company Pacific Hydro to the Chinese-based State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). IFM Investors was not surprised by the level of buyer interest in the business which runs 19 wind ...