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The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... to strengthen. Fair enough. But how strong does the labour market need to be to get inflation lifting? At 4.3% in May, America's jobless rate has broken below the NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) as measured by both Oxford Economics ...

JB Financial enters buyout mode

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
JB Financial Group is on an acquisition drive with three flagged purchases and a raft of new hires. The first, Risk & Security Management (RSM), has already been completed, adding 68 employees to JB Financial's staff. Consideration for the RSM acquisition ...

ANZ appoints chief underwriter

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... insurance transformation since joining ANZ in 2013. Before that, Tilocca held multiple roles at the Reinsurance Group of America, including director business development and vice president, underwriting and claims. He was also chief underwriter at ING ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... year to the March quarter from 1.8% in the December 2016 quarter. Using the same measure, this is just a little below America's GDP growth of 2% (year-on-year) in Q1 2017 from 1.9% in Q4 2016. While the region's unemployment rate (9.3% in April) is more ...

New analyst for Lennox Capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... investments and published research on companies and sectors. Bible has also previously worked at J.P. Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Bible will work closely with the Lennox founders and portfolio managers James Dougherty and Liam Donohue. ...

AMP Capital names key real assets hires

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... the firm's global listed infrastructure team; he will oversee global transportation infrastructure in Europe and Latin America. Before this role, Jones was director, equity research at the Royal Bank of Canada. Oliver Reiff, meanwhile, has been appointed ...

AMP Capital makes key infrastructure hire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... the transport sector, and his knowledge and expertise will bring added capability to our origination focus across North America," Foo said. "The US is a very attractive market for AMP Capital and we think the potential for investment is significant. ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
America's non-farm payrolls report is called "The Mother of All Economic Reports" for nothing - it moves the US financial markets (and by extension, the global ones) up or down depending on the indications it presents when it's released. The US employment ...

Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), representing $1.5 trillion in funds under management, has condemned US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Trump justified the ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
Lock it in, Eddie. Lock in another 25 basis point interest rate hike after the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee meets on 13-14 June. The odds of the Fed raising the fed funds rate from 0.75%-1.0% to 1.0%-1.25% next month have already risen to more ...