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Super moves: VFMC, QIC, Prime Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
Nikola Garevski has joined Victorian Funds Management Corporation as a senior equities analyst. Garevski landed at the $92 billion VFMC from AustralianSuper, where he was a senior risk analyst on an eight-month contract. Previously, he spent over four ...

Harris vs Trump: Key economic policy differences

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
... back in 2017," he said. However, Cunneen said Trump's proposals would have a more dramatic impact on global trade and the US jobs market. "Trump has proposed imposing 10% tariffs on all imports into the US and specifically 60% on Chinese imports," he ...

Zenith increases defensive investment as recession risk looms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2024
... "Headlines have attributed this volatility to various factors including the Bank of Japan's rate hike, the weak July US jobs report and talk of recession. "We should also remember that markets had moved sharply higher over the past year and have ...

AMP restructures wealth management, chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2023
AMP has made the chief executive role of its local wealth management business redundant as it restructures to a new operating model. Australian Wealth Management (AWM) will see chief Scott Hartley exit by the end of the year. "With the recent [AMP Capital] ...

Uncertainty remains for global outlook: TCorp

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... global economic outlook, and how TCorp expects them to evolve. Out of the nine key issues, four are from the US including US jobs growth, US earnings growth, US Federal Reserve easing monetary policy and the US/China Phase 2 Trade Deal. TCorp chief economist ...

Banks commit to new adviser hiring standards

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
In the hopes of only employing competent and ethical financial advisers, the banking industry has announced a new hiring protocol. The banking industry has created a protocol which sets minimum standards for checking references and sharing information ...

December maybe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
... how the three-month average growth in employment remains a respectable 232,000 but the absent these excuses, August's US jobs report missed expectations. Employment's a miss - there were only 151,000 jobs created versus expectations for a 175,000 addition. ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... speculators to put risk back on onto their portfolios. Fear, it seems, has left the building... or driven out by the strong US jobs numbers. The VIX index closed 10.6% down to a reading of 13.2 - and down on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... consecutive month of improvement. An increase in the average work week from 34.5 hours to 34.6 hours also augurs well for the US jobs market. Looked at in isolation, continued US labour market strength pooh-poohs recent concerns (including mine) that ...

US Fed cleared for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... zero interest rate policy - precisely seven years. Reports put the odds of a lift-off rising to 80%. But after the strong US jobs numbers and overlayed with US Fed chief Janet Yelland's words to the US Congress' Joint Economic Committee a day prior that... ...
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