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The importance of Asian trade agreements

GREG O'NEILL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LA TROBE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... of a market downturn is essential. Given REI Super members' exposure to the fast-growing property market through their own jobs, the fund's investment strategy takes a conservative approach to this asset class. "Over the last two to three years we have ...

Culture is the 'glue' that drives growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... the volunteers, the whingers, the survivors and the prisoners. The 'volunteers' are the role models who will fulfil their jobs and go out of the way to help a company succeed. The so-called 'prisoners' are the opposite and will attempt to sabotage or ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... expectations for a 1.7% gain. Growth flipped from 2.1% to 1.2% in the year to the September quarter. Now think of all the jobs this kind of growth will not create....and inflation? The Fed's favoured measure - the PCE price index - slowed to 1.2% in ...

December lift-off, yeah, sure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... the data says no to December... unless things dramatically turn around, that is. When the Fed met in September, they saw jobs growth slowing to 136K in August from 223K in July - they didn't lift. Even in June they didn't lift when they saw employment ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... conditions, in particular the job market, and were moderately less optimistic about the short-term outlook. Those anticipating more jobs in the months ahead declined moderately from 14.9 percent to 14.5 percent, while those anticipating fewer jobs increased ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... after only one meeting., Roughly speaking the data has not been that different from what would have been expected, and the jobs report was weaker." As for December, there's still around a 33% likelihood that the Fed would, if the Fed could. But expanding ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... bump higher. Never say, never. While the Fed and the markets appear to be focused on the one-half of their twin mandate, jobs - the latest slowing of which caused the latest betting that a lift-off is off the table this year - it's doing better than ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... Yet in the same week that the IMF slashed 2015 and 2016 global growth projections and after the disappointing September US jobs numbers (and nothing to suggest that China's bouncing back), financial markets sang hallelujah. And why? And why is because ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... August (it has been below the Fed's 2.0% target since May 2012 and has been trending lower since) - employment - only 142,000 jobs were added in September with downward revisions in the previous two months subtracting another 59,000 jobs (confirmed by ...