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Clime IM appoints private wealth head from Suncorp

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
Clime Investment Management named the head of its private wealth division and flagged the development of interstate offices in an investor update. Maria Greensill was previously manager, financial planning operations at Suncorp. Before that, she was ...

Ignition Wealth appointment flags fintech future

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... Ireland. The Ireland business opened in July 2017 and is now established with an office in the city's historic St Stephen's Green and an initial local staff of six, including technical and business development. The firm said its software solution has ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... Just like today's synchronised upswing, the global economy has greatly improved from the recession of 2009 (recall, the "green sprouts") and more important for Australia, China's economy was growing at double-digit rates. But history shows that while ...

Global wealth manager champions embattled digital currencies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... while ethereum and ripple dropped 24% and 33%, respectively. According to deVere Group founder and chief executive Nigel Green, 2017 saw the dawn of the fintech era and will go down in history as the year that digital currencies entered the mainstream. ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
Echoing BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's quick push back on taper speculations, Deutsche Bundesbank president and ECB governing council member Jens Weidmann used his speech at the Ludwig-Erhard Summit in Bavaria to do the same. Like Kuroda, Weidmann's ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... and the Russell 2000 all finishing at all-time highs... and for good reasons. Growth is going and inflation is sprouting green shoots. Mr. & Mrs. Jones continue to spend, spend and spend. While overall retail sales slowed to 5.5% in the year to December ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
"I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself what a wonderful world..." -- Louis Armstrong Yes Virginia, if the strong performance of most major equity markets around the world is any indication, 2018 will ...

Financial Standard names Investment Leadership Award winners

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
Financial Standard is proud to announce the winners of its first Investment Leadership Awards in recognition of investment managers' strategies that have persistently delivered outstanding investment solutions and outcomes. The Investment Leadership ...

French giant intensifies action on global warming

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... channel their savings towards financing the energy transition just as we help institutional investors orient funds towards 'green' projects." Doing its part, to date BNP Paribas has issued €135 billion in loans that directly work to achieve the United ...

Thinning trade surplus shaves A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
Financial markets expected Australia's trade surplus to narrow in October but not by this much. The Australian Bureau of Statistics'(ABS) 'International Trade in Goods and Services report showed that the country's trade surplus dropped to just A$105 ...