Oliver’s Insights: has the $A disconnected from fundamentals?

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This edition of Oliver’s Insights looks at the rebound and ongoing strength in the Australian dollar and the debate about whether the RBA should intervene directly to limit its strength.

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AMP Capital expands global infrastructure team

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AMP Capital has made senior appointments to its global infrastructure team. Manish Aggarwal has been appointed as Investment and Operations Director, based in London. Mr Aggarwal is responsible for a

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Weekly economic & market update

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The news on the policy front out of Europe over the past week has been pretty quite. ECB officials have reaffirmed their determination to act and its clear the ECB

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Michael Dwyer AM awarded Fund Executive of the Year

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First State Super’s Michael Dwyer AM has been named the winner of the 11th Annual Fund Executive of the Year Award by the Fund Executive Association Limited (FEAL), in partnership

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Weekly economic & market update

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Both the Fed and the ECB disappointed markets with a lack of immediate action. However, both promise of action to come if needed, so its not nearly as bad as

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Oliver’s Insights: The search for yield

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Assets with a decent and sustainable yield are attractive because they provide a greater certainty of return in an environment of volatile and constrained capital growth. However, bank term deposit

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Weekly economic & market update

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The bad news earlier in the past week threatened to see a return to panic in Europe. Spain’s economy is now bearing down on various regional governments forcing them to

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Corporate Governance 2012 mid year report

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The sustainability of company business models and profit growth can be affected by a wide range of environmental, social and governance issues (ESG). For precisely this reason AMP Capital searches

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Weekly economic & market update

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“Risk on” was the main theme over most of the past week on the back of better than feared earnings news and hopes for more stimulus from the Fed, until

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AMP Capital wins global REIT mandate from China’s social security fund

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AMP Capital has been selected to manage a significant global listed real estate mandate for one of the largest public pension funds in the world, China’s National Council for Social

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