Markets Today: Tax(pl)an
It’s been news filtering out over the past 24 hours of the Trump/Republican tax plan that understandably gathered the attention of markets and gotten USD bulls re-energised. Read more
Taking socially responsible investment from concept to critical mass
Beyond reaching institutional investors, socially responsible investment (SRI) assets need to develop sufficient scale and momentum to attract interest from the wholesale markets. Read more
NAB Consumer Behaviour Survey: Q2 2017
Insights into the mindset of Australian consumers – their anxieties around future spending and savings plans, what drives these concerns and how they are impacting actual spending behaviours and financial hardship. Read more
Markets Today: Dear Prudence
Fed chair Janet Yellen spoke last night and opined that it would be ‘Imprudent to keep monetary policy on hold until inflation hits 2%’ Read more
Pushing your limits: Four extreme sports to make you feel alive
Winter is over and you’re no longer interested in hibernating. Time to try an extreme sport. Read more
NAB Customer Spending Behaviours: Q2 2017
Consumers spending their disposable dollars on experiences Read more
Australian Markets Weekly: 25 September 2017
Jobs boom seeing some emerging rises in advertised salaries. Read more
Markets Today: False Alarm?
A mild risk-off theme quickly emerged around midnight following North Korea’s statement that the US has effectively “declared war” and that North Korea has every right to “make countermeasures”. Read more
China: The Bond plot thickens
China is set to increase foreign ownership of Chinese debt. In the near term, we expect Chinese bond market inflows north of US$1 trillion, but in the medium term inflows of more than US$2.5 trillion would not be beyond the pale. Read more
Markets Today: Hung Up
Hung parliaments on current voting tallies in general elections in New Zealand on Saturday and Germany on Sunday have taken bites out of the NZD and EUR at Monday’s market re-open. Read more
Farm Management Deposits crack $6 billion
For the first time since their introduction in 1999, Farm Management Deposits have topped $6 billion. Khan Horne, General Manager of NAB Agribusiness, explains which sectors and states have fuelled this incredible growth, and what the result means for the Australian agricultural sector. Khan Horne, General Manager, NAB Agribusiness Read more
Industry leader on how professional services firms must change
Traditional law and accounting firms need to take a hard look at their business models and ways of pricing, or they risk getting left behind. The man who brought the term NewLaw to the world and has researched and written extensively on the subject gives five pieces of advice. Read more
