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Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... from April's 7%; Retail spending slowed for a third consecutive month to 8.5% in May from 9.4% in April and 10.1% in March. But while that prickly external account showed that China's trade surplus narrowed to US$24.9 billion in May from US$28.8 ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... provides lessons for the impatient. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) lifted interest rates four times from 2.5% in March 2014 to 3.5% by August of the same the same year. No one can fault the RBNZ, annual GDP growth accelerated from 1.7% in the ...

CBA restructures executive leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... improving CBA's credit risk, operational risk and compliance in what the bank described as a critical time. Williams left ANZ in March after 15 years, having also previously served as head of institutional banking in Australia and New Zealand. He will ...

Super startup returns to drawing board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... confirmed its inaugural chief executive, former J.P. Morgan Asset Management executive Pascale Helyar-Moray left the startup in March to pursue other opportunities. "At the time of her departure, the board of Human Super thanked her for her hard work ...

Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... Policy Council (MPC) voted to raise the Bank Rate at its June meet as against only two when it convened in May and nil in March. The three who voted 'ayes' have good reason for doing so because as stated in the Monetary Policy Summary: "In the ...

Russell Master Trust COO departs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... expanding its superannuation alliance, developed in partnership with Link Group in 2013. Nationwide Super joined the alliance in March as part of a move to reduce fees for members and small business owners. "The alliance model allows Nationwide a unique ...

NZ Super Fund appoints CEO

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... as chief investment officer from 2014. After Adrian Orr departed to become Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in March 2018, Whineray acted as interim chief executive. NZ Super Fund chair Catherine Savage said Whineray stood out among other ...

Contango to launch global active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... past 10 years. WCM has entered into an exclusive arrangement with CGA and Switzer Asset Management - which CGA acquired in March - to distribute the strategy by the aforementioned ETF as well as a listed investment company and a retail managed fund. ...

Future Fund reshuffles investment team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... Australia, the US and Europe valued at more than $8 billion. In addition to the two deputy chief investment officers announced in March 2018, the Future Fund announced it has created five new roles and appointed existing senior investment staff. The ...

Perpetual names interim chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... management for managed investment trusts and Perpetual's Singapore business. Riggio replaces Andrew Cannane who departed in March for a new role with the newly-listed Evans Dixon