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Instos chasing EM debt for value

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
Institutional investors are setting their sights on emerging market debt in an environment where equities and interest rates seem fully valued. Speaking to Financial Standard, Grant Samuel Funds Management chief executive Damien McIntyre said that interest ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
"You may have noticed that at yesterday's meeting, the Reserve Bank Board left the cash rate unchanged at 1.5%, where it has been since August 2016." This is what RBA Governor Philip Lowe told his audience at the Australian Financial Review Business ...

Not all heroes wear capes

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
An avocado-themed 'super' hero is telling millennials it's okay to eat smashed avo for breakfast as long as they consolidate their duplicate superannuation accounts. 'CADO', a newly launched animated bot from research and consumer group CHOICE, says ...

TAL welcomes new claims executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
TAL has appointed a new general manager of claims. Currently in the role of general manager of international life solutions, Loraine van Eeden, will transition into the new role in January 2018. Relocating to Sydney from Capetown, van Eeden will be ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
"You can't make people be confident, I certainly can't. I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink." This was then RBA governor Glenn Stevens' statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on ...

Labor, FSU call for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
APRA's inquiry into the Commonwealth Bank reinforces an urgent need for a banking Royal Commission, according to Labor and the Finance Sector Union of Australia. If there are doubts about the need for a Royal Commission a year ago, there can be no doubts ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
You've all heard, read and googled the news - the Australian dollar is taking a battering and is headed down, down. I first came across this when I read Michael Wilson's piece on Bloomberg, "The Australian Dollar's Outlook Darkens" (16 May). Back then ...

Savills IM expands with $90m acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
Savills Investment Management broadened its reach with its first acquisition of Australian property assets for the Savills IM Asia Pacific Fund. The assets, Quest East Perth and The Station Oxley in Brisbane, were purchased for about $90 million in ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
It could have been triggered by anything imaginable under the sun, but the financial markets' correction - due to Trump's repeal/replace Obamacare failure - should be seen as that, one that "corrects" overvalued levels that have run ahead of fundamentals. ...

A good set of numbers (almost)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
It was good. Nay, it was very good. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on company profits helped explain the latest jump in the NAB survey that showed business conditions increased by 6 points to a reading of +16 in January - the highest ...