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Ex-RBA Governor joins Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank will welcome a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia to its boards next month. Glenn Stevens, who served as Governor between 2006 and 2016, will join both boards on November 1 as an independent director. ...

Crestone names new chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... role of head of macro research, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to UBS, he served as a senior economist for the Reserve Bank of Australia and is a former trustee director of Australian Christian Superannuation.

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... opposition Labor Party forming a coalition government with New Zealand First (expected to lead to a change in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's conduct of monetary policy). Also closer to home and perhaps, one that would have the most impact on the Australian ...

Beige Book report delivers known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... major market movements. The US Federal Reserve's description of the "Beige Book" explains why it is so: "Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its district through reports from bank and branch directors ...

Former NZ Prime Minister joins bank board

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... the head of global foreign exchange for Merrill Lynch and a member of the Foreign Exchange Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Earlier this year, he received a Companion of the Order of Australia for advancing the Australia-New Zealand ...

Global fund manager names new investment lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... tools. Prior to joining the firm, she was a principal at Mercer Investment Consulting, and before that, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

India's upside risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Perhaps the Reserve Bank of India was just following its former colonial master. For similar to the Bank of England (BOE) - it cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.25% in August 2016 to head off the potential negative fall-out from Brexit win ...

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... claims is a disparity in wealth and technology being "massively deflationary" Sicilia said. He questions why the Reserve Bank of Australia governor said to the Australian people 'go ask for a wage rise,' but nobody queued outside their HR manager's door ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
It was a ho-hum event, the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 3 October board meeting, that is. The Australian central bank kept interest rates unchanged as widely expected. This takes to 14 the number of months the RBA has kept the official interest ...

As clear as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... from the University of Michigan survey of consumers, "as well as a survey of consumers carried out by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, do hint that expectations may have slipped a bit over the past two or three years. If so, stabilising inflation ...