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Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
"The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect certainty." - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney The Bank of England (BOE) finally went ahead and did it. It lifted the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% at the conclusion of its ...

Chief economist update: The grass is paler on the China side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
Just as expected, the Fed's 31 July-1 August meeting was a non-event - keeping the fed funds rate unchanged at 1.75%-20% - but it did give the US central bank a platform to gloat about the US economy. "Information received since the Federal Open ...

NRMA chair links with asset manager

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
The chairman of NRMA has been appointed to the board of a $25 billion international equities manager. Platinum Asset Management is welcoming Tim Trumper to its board, with the NRMA chairman set to begin his tenure as a non-executive director at Platinum ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
Boom! That's the sound of the US economy popping up to an annualised rate of 4.1% in the second quarter of 2018, up from an upwardly revised 2.2% (from 2%) expansion in the first quarter. While this is in line with market expectations, it's ...

Fund manager boosts leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... Mortgage Securities as head of investor relations, incoming Underdown spent several years in London, working for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Legal & General Investment Management, after earlier working as a budget analyst for the Australian Government. ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
Forget John Maynard Keynes. Forget David Ricardo. A new economic sheriff is in town and his name is Donald J. Trump. POTUS has gone against Keynes' counter-cyclical prescription by increasing fiscal spending - tax cuts and increased expenditure ...

Custodian strengthens front-office with $3.5 billion acquisition

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... Charles River Development is a privately held company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Its primary focus is providing solutions that automate front and middle-office investment management ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... for that matter, the Fed's reaction to Trump's not so subtle remarks. Our problem, Houston, is what happens in America does not stay there. The Bank of Canada (BOC) can thank its lucky stars there's no Trump to "guide" its policy decisions ...

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... for many it's just the plain and simple truism that a trade war is a lose-lose proposition. In his quest to "make America great again" and under the guise of "national security", US President Donald Trump kicked off with a 25% tariff on steel and ...

Advice dealer group appoints executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... The Trust Company, which was acquired by Perpetual December 2013, and has held key strategy roles with AMP and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Fitzpatricks Group managing director John McMurdo said Blackledge's primary focus will be growing the firm's ...