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Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... 3.9% so far this year after rising by 13.9% in 2017. Not completely surprising given the euro area's sharply improving fortune. Fourth quarter economic growth wasn't available yet when the Governing Council met on the 25th of January and Draghi, in his ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
Australian billionaires amassed a $115.4 billion fortune in FY17, representing a 140% jump since the Global Financial Crisis, according to an Oxfam analysis. The Oxfam Growing Gulf Between Work and Wealth paper found Australia's richest 1% had more ...

Chinese financial services giant eyes Australian expansion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... by Tianhong Asset, an Ant Financial subsidiary. Other businesses operated by Ant Financial Services Group include Ant Fortune, a wealth-management app, Zhima (Sesame) Credit, a social credit scoring system, and MYbank, a digital bank which offers microloans ...

Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
Several Australian superannuation funds have been included in the ranks of the world's largest pension funds, recording a 9.1% increase in growth. Research provided by Willis Towers Watson shows that of 300 pension funds listed, 16 Australian funds ...

Veteran WTW investments head departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... I am glad that we have been able to affect this transition to Taro in a planned and thoughtful way and I wish her good fortune and success in the next phase of her life and career." "I have been honoured to lead the Investment business and to help Willis ...

Global real estate investors too nonchalant: Man GPM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
Investors will benefit from focusing on defensive strategies within property portfolios as the overall real estate market may be gearing up for a correction. Man Global Private Markets' co-head of real assets Mikko Syrjanen believes there are too many ...

From financial advisers to cybersecurity advocates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... have only convicted less than 2% of cybercrime activity. Listed companies are vulnerable. In the US, 80% of the value of Fortune 500 companies consists of Intellectual Property (IP) and other intangibles. In Australia, the exposure is less but does exist ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
"The French complain of everything, and always," Napoleon Bonaparte once said. The French made known their disenchantment with the establishment political parties - both the Republican and Socialist parties failed to garner enough support to make it ...

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 ...

New product simplifies APRA reporting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... security posture to reduce cyber threats." Tenable has more than one million users worldwide, with customers ranging from Fortune Global 500 companies, to the public sector and mid-sized enterprises across finance, government, healthcare, higher education ...