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Aussie start-up wins $500m impact investing mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
A former senior financial services executive who less than 12 months ago went out on a limb to set up his own business has signed a $500 million investment mandate - with another $500 million in the works. Less than a year since its launch, Sydney-based ...

The president is a Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
Donald Trump - the "misogynist", the "sexual predator", the "racist", the "lying cheat", the "clown", the "narcissist", "the most hated man in America" is now President-elect of America. No one, or so it seems, like him. Not the media - mainstream and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
Australia ANZ job ads "The rise in job ads is encouraging and points to ongoing improvement in labour market conditions. It was consistent with the moderate pace of economic growth, as well as above average business and consumer sentiment" is how ANZ's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
Australia private sector credit Total private sector credit increased by 0.4% in September - in line with market expectations - following similar gains in the previous two months. Credit to housing and to business went up by 0.5% (from up 0.5% in August) ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
US consumer confidence The Conference Board's consumer confidence index dropped to 98.6 in October following a downwardly revised 103.5 reading (from 104.1) in the previous month. This is much lower than market expectations for a slight decrease to ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
Australia new motor vehicle sales Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show that the total new motor vehicle sales rose by 2.5% over the month of September to a record high 100,640 units. This followed a flat outcome in the previous month and ...

Oil's rally could slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
They were priced at US$26.01 and US$26.91 with Standard Chartered Bank even going on record predicting that prices could drop to US$10 before "money managers in the market conceded that matters had gone too far". These were the price of a barrel of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
US export and import prices The Fed's view that the negative impact of import prices on consumer price inflation would be easing appears to be in the money with the latest import price index showing continued improvement. Though less than the expected ...

Bank life risk businesses lose market share

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Bank-owned insurers including CommInsure and NAB/MLC have lost some of their share of the life insurance risk market to the likes of TAL and AIA owing to significant falls in the sale of new premiums, the latest data from Strategic Insight shows. Numbers ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Australia business confidence The latest NAB monthly business survey's business confidence index came in at +6 in September, unchanged from August and is consistent with its +6 long-term average. The business conditions index rose to +8 in September ...