Weekly market update – week ending 16 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While the US share market recovered some of its loss from the previous week as fears of an imminent Fed rate

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19 Sep 2016

AMP Capital grows US Infrastructure Debt team

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AMP Capital has appointed Adam Heath as Vice President in its Infrastructure Debt team, based in New York. Mr Heath joined AMP Capital on 6 September 2016 and is primarily

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19 Sep 2016

Australian jobs down (a bit), but full time jobs up and unemployment down too

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Employment fell by 3,900 in August, which was well below market expectations for a 15,000 gain but did follow stronger than expected growth of 26,000 in July. Annual jobs growth

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16 Sep 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 9 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets were mostly up over the last week but Australian shares fell slightly. Mixed US data, the ongoing soap

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12 Sep 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 2 September, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Japanese shares rose solidly over the last week helped by talk of more monetary easing and a fall in the

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05 Sep 2016

AMP Capital Corporate Governance Report zeroes in on disruption in financial services and how to assess a portfolio’s climate change risk

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Driverless cars, the sharing economy and blockchain are three of the top sources of disruption for Australia’s insurance and diversified financial services sector, according to AMP Capital’s latest Corporate Governance

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02 Sep 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 26 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week While Eurozone shares rose 1.2% over the last week US shares fell 0.7%, Australian shares lost 0.2%, Japanese shares fell 1.1%

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29 Aug 2016

Weekly market update – week ending 19 August, 2016

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Shares were mixed over the last week with European, Japanese and Australian shares down but US and Chinese shares up. Bond

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22 Aug 2016

AMP reports A$523 million net profit for 1H 16

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AMP Limited (ASX: AMP; ADR: AMLYY) has reported a net profit of A$523 million for the half year to 30 June 2016[1], up 3 per cent on A$507 million for

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19 Aug 2016

The constrained medium term return outlook

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Key points Low and falling investment yields from most major asset classes point to a constrained medium term return outlook. For a diversified mix of assets, this has now fallen

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17 Aug 2016