28 Mar 2023
Elliott: Queensland's road to greater prosperity
Shayne Elliott |
Strategic investment and focus on emerging sectors can bring the Sunshine State additional economic growth.
Growth
20 Mar 2023
Sustainable savings for business owners
Cosi De Angelis | GM Transaction Banking & Asset Finance Solutions, ANZ
Australian business owners save on tax by taking advantage of the asset write off scheme in preparation for the transition towards a low-carbon economy.
18 Sep 2017
Growth backers: financing Asia’s rapid expansion
Carl Roberts | Head of ANZ Loan Syndications for South & Southeast Asia.
An infrastructure investment gap is opening up in Asia challenges regarding the availability and pricing of capital are increasing.
11 Jul 2017
PODCAST: is India the next big thing?
Leon Gettler | Veteran and highly regarded management journalist
On the cusp of regulatory change India – the world’s largest democracy – offers immense investment opportunity.
12 Apr 2017
It’s not all about millennials: consumers are ageing
Gina Westbrook | Director Strategy Briefings, Euromonitor
There’s never been a better time to be old – or to take advantage of the growing mature-consumer market. Life expectancy is rising around the world, having a major effect on consumer behaviour and the way business approach the market.
28 Mar 2017
Regional Aus: ready for the Asian trade horizon
Christine Linden | General Manager, Regional Business Banking, ANZ Australia
Agriculture has long been a cornerstone of Australia’s economy. As the sector again surges - or “saves our economic bacon” - after 28 per cent growth in 2016 and high expectations for 2017, we’re again reminded of its key place in our economic mix.
21 Oct 2015
How to benefit from the new Chinese dream
Sanjoy Sen | Managing Director for Retail Banking Asia Pacific
Like Australians, the Chinese middle class have a dream and this dream is becoming the new centre of Australia's relationship with China. As their ranks swell their aspirations begin to closely resemble any other developed country albeit with a Chinese twist.
19 Oct 2015
There is no stopping progress (unless you have a lot of cabs)
Alex Kewley | Director, Client Insights & Solutions, ANZ
Seeing the black cab drivers lined up in London to protest against Uber earlier this year got me thinking: there is no stopping progress (although in the short term you can obviously cause traffic jams).
16 Sep 2015
Australia's other China opportunity
Richard Holdcroft | Freelance journalist
Chinese tourists spent $US130 billion on their international travels last year – equivalent to the combined GDPs of the world's 50 smallest countries. Experts are predicting this armada of tourism dollars will almost double in just three years.
15 Sep 2015
NZ's next billion dollar industry
Pete Barnao | BlueNotes contributing editor
In a sheltered bay in the spectacular Marlborough Sounds at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island you can see a glimpse of hidden treasure. Bobbing gently not far from the passing ferries to Wellington, to the untrained eye they're nondescript rows of floating buoys.
14 Sep 2015
From canoes to corridors: the Pacific trade story
Vishnu Mohan | Former CEO Pacific, ANZ
The Pacific was a very different place in the 1800s. It was a time following Captain James Cook's legendary expeditions, when colonial rivalries and empire building marked the beginning of the region's integration into the global scene.
11 Sep 2015
How to stay the course on China
Leonie Lethbridge | CEO Cambodia, ANZ
The volatility across global markets and data out of China has unsettled many across the region. While the much-feared 'China Syndrome' is a fanciful worst-case scenario for many, what is happening in the Asian giant today is not the catastrophe many believe.
11 Aug 2015
PNG's electricity generation challenge: Power to the people, power to the economy
Grant Mitchell | Director, Port Jackson Partners
Papua New Guinea's development goals require a tripling of electricity supply by 2030 - growth the existing electricity delivery system will be hard pressed to deliver.
11 Aug 2015
How PNG can power into the Asian Century
Mike Smith | Former Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
Asia's industrialisation is presenting Papua New Guinea with an unprecedented opportunity to fast-track its economic and social development.
04 Aug 2015
Regulation: not enough lifeboats. Or too many?
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
Following the Titanic disaster – the shipwreck not the movie – the global shipping industry and governments vowed to make sea travel safer.
04 Aug 2015
Vietnam's stunning turn
Helen Clark | Freelance journalist & former Asian correspondent
America and Vietnam celebrated 20 years of the normalisation of relations on the July 11. The two nations have seen rare closeness in recent years including recent Vietnam visits by former US President Bill Clinton and US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.
17 Jul 2015
Vietnam's need for speed
Aseem Goyal | Head of Transaction Banking Greater Mekong, ANZ
"Vietnam is no longer a war. It is a country," writes Robert Dodge in Vietnam 40 Years Later, a work which seeks to reintroduce Vietnam to the rest of the world.
15 Jul 2015
Australia's budding green bonds
Oliver Yates | CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Australian energy is slowly going green. More than 30 new renewable energy plants will begin operating across Australia within the next five years and Australia's fast-growing green bond market – and thousands of superannuants – are likely to be behind the investment helping to build this new capacity.
15 Jul 2015
The RMB reaches a crossroad
Daniel Everett | Global Head RMB Strategy & Execution, ANZ
I have many conversations about the renminbi (RMB) yet I almost never walk away without some new insight, perspective or appreciation of the opportunity emerging as China liberalises its currency and financial markets.
06 Jul 2015
What to expect from the AIIB
Li-Gang Liu | Former Chief Economist Greater China, ANZ
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank passed another milestone in late June when 50 of its 57 founding members signed articles of agreement (AOA) for the institution. So now it is in operational mode, what can we expect from the AIIB?
02 Jun 2015
Metropolis Now
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
The 21st century may be the Asian Century or it may yet be the century the emerging world joins the developed world. But however this century plays out, it will be an Age of the City.
30 Apr 2015
Singapore: founding ASEAN nation but where is its future?
Vishnu Shahaney | CEO Indonesia, ANZ
As the year-end deadline for the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) draws near, the region's leaders are calling for a concerted last push over the finish line. Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recognise greater integration through a single market and production base is crucial in realising the region's economic potential.
24 Apr 2015
Australia’s next horizon
Glenn Maguire | Former Chief Economist South Asia, ASEAN & Pacific, ANZ
I like traffic jams. When I find myself – as I often am – at a standstill in Hanoi, Manila or Jakarta, I am reassured all is well. As an economist, the traffic jam is one of the most tangible indicators of economies growing quickly, a burgeoning new middle class rapidly forming - these new middle-income households are purchasing vehicles and scooters for the very first time.
22 Apr 2015
The new FTZs opening China up
Li-Gang Liu & Raymond Yeung | Former Chief Economist Greater China & Chief Economist, Greater China, ANZ
In a further positiive development for market liberalisation in China, the country's State Council has formally unveiled its plans to launch three more Free Trade Zones (FTZs) within the Asian giant's borders.
21 Apr 2015
Seizing the services opportunity
Mike Smith | Former Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
As Australia picks up the pieces from the end of the mining boom, more of us than ever are focussed on the future of the economy. Many questions are being asked, like how can we diversify our economic base, how can we deliver more and higher-paid jobs and how can we pay for government services for an ageing population?
21 Apr 2015
Offshoring the service sector is good for the economy – and jobs
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
It’s taken a price collapse in the rock star commodity of the last half decade – iron ore – for many, maybe even Canberra, to realise Australia is not actually a resource economy.
31 Mar 2015
China’s revolution is being misread
Leonie Lethbridge | CEO Cambodia, ANZ
Too much China commentary focusses on the magnitude or rate of change of growth in the country (or rather the lack of it), the risks in the economy and the implications for global growth.
13 Mar 2015
Foodie mums take slice of pie market
Pete Barnao | BlueNotes contributing editor
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. And the stomach. Maree Glading and Jessie Stanley returned to New Zealand from their big OE in the UK hankering for a good Kiwi steak and cheese pie.
12 Mar 2015
Kiwi bosses more bullish
Bruce Hassall | CEO, PwC New Zealand
New Zealand's “rock star" economy may be peaking but its chief executives remain more optimistic than Australian – and global – peers.
10 Mar 2015
Laos is open for business
Tammy Medard | Managing Director Institutional Australia, ANZ
A landlocked country in the heart of the Greater Mekong, Laos remains unknown to many – probably most – outside its borders. When I was appointed CEO of ANZ Bank (Lao), most of my friends, family and colleagues asked "Laos? Where is that, Vietnam?"
04 Mar 2015
The recipe for an international restaurant business empire
Peter Wilmoth | Feature writer
In the tightly-controlled rhythm of lunch service at his restaurant glass brasserie in Sydney's Hilton Hotel, chef and entrepreneur Luke Mangan keeps an eye on how the intricate but hopefully almost invisible operation is unfolding.
24 Feb 2015
China growth – the reality behind the headline numbers
Jason Murphy | Publisher, Thomas the Think Engine
Fretting about China’s falling economic growth has become an industry. Money managers, hedge fund gurus and business people have amassed years worth of concerned moments.
23 Jan 2015
New era of business opportunity for India-Australia enterprise
Subhas DeGamia | Former CEO India, ANZ
At the ABWI, I heard one phrase repeated frequently: India has some key requirements and, for most, Australia has the resources and capability to meet and supply.
23 Jan 2015
New news for new New Zealanders
Stefan Herrick | Senior Manager External Communications New Zealand, ANZ
Winton, a small rural service town in New Zealand’s Deep South, has seen an influx of new residents in recent years. They are farm workers and managers from the Philippines, brought in to fill a shortfall in workers on the region’s booming dairy farms.
22 Jan 2015
Five ways tennis is a huge growth business
Louise Eyres | Group General Manager Marketing, ANZ
January means tennis. And tennis is a growth business indeed.
07 Jan 2015
China’s online and shopping up a storm
BlueNotes reporter |
China’s emerging affluent youth are online – everywhere and all of the time – there is huge potential for online businesses to take advantage of this growing segment. ChinaSkinny lays out the landscape.
05 Jan 2015
The muesli bowl of Asia
Peter Wilmoth | Feature writer
It is 21 years since Carolyn Creswell was an 18 year old babysitter working for a couple who wanted to sell their small muesli business. She and a partner could only scrape together $2000 – which the owners initially knocked back. Today Carolyn is on the BRW Young Rich list.
11 Dec 2014
SME growth blockers and how to get past them
Shane White | Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
Small and medium-sized Australian companies that have fallen off the growth curve are often faced with similar issues, regardless of their industry.
01 Dec 2014
ASEAN leads gender parity charge to drive economic growth
Eugenia Victorino | Economist, ANZ
Good news: economic participation within ASEAN is higher than the global average, according to a world Economic Forum report.
28 Nov 2014
Pirates, spies, soul stealers: the spiritual and economic transformation of yoga
Shaheem Black | Fellow, Australian National University
In the past decade the worldwide yoga industry has become a multibillion- dollar business. Yet, ironically, the one country where yoga does not yet thrive commercially is the very place from which yoga is thought to originate: India. Why should this be?
18 Nov 2014
Accountants: flush with cash, looking to buy
Glenn Jennings & Nicole Franklin | BlueNotes contributing editors
There is one industry which should be happy with increasing regulation in Australia: accounting. Most of the industry’s revenue growth over the past few years has come at the hands of audit compliance and financial reporting.
14 Nov 2014
StatSnack: the forgotten benefit of slow wage growth
ANZ Research |
The slowdown in Australian wages growth, while negative for household income and consumption, has broader economic benefits by reducing costs for businesses.
14 Nov 2014
The G20 can make a real difference – and not just for Brisbane
Mike Smith | Former Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
Most people living in Brisbane will be acutely aware that the G20 is coming to town. Whether it’s the festival that has seen the city bathed in lights as part of Colour Me Brisbane or today’s public holiday, it hasn’t been a normal working week.
03 Nov 2014
Asia’s forgotten giant: the sun rises again in Japan
Shane White | Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
For nearly half a century, Japan was Australia’s number one trading partner. It is still number two. But you wouldn’t know that from much of what you read.
21 Oct 2014
Gough Whitlam and the start of the modern Australia-China relationship
Nicole Franklin | BlueNotes contributing editor
Australia’s 21st Prime Minister Gough Whitlam died Tuesday aged 98. One of the most colourful and transformative figures in Australian domestic politics, he was also the first politician to re-engage with China in the modern age. He visited as Opposition leader and Prime Minister. Here are 10 of his most prescient insights following his 1971 visit.
15 Oct 2014
The key challenges facing a new Indonesia
Daniel Wilson | Markets Economist, ANZ
In late October, Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo will be inaugurated as the seventh President of Indonesia. The island archipelago of 252 million people, spanning the distance of New York to Alaska, is at an economic crossroad and his presidency could well prove to be a defining moment in Indonesia’s economic history.
25 Sep 2014
Up in the air: what lies ahead for road transport?
Mark Ganz | Director Client Insights, ANZ
Drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, are one of the more spectacular risks facing the road transport industry. No longer just science fiction, with companies such as Flirtey in Australia and Amazon’s Prime Air in the US set to launch in 2015, it is easy to see that the transportation sector will need to evolve or get left behind on the ground.
22 Sep 2014
Business the big winners of the NZ election
Bernard Hickey | Publisher at Hive News
Investors looking at New Zealand's election result from across the Tasman and up in North Asia should be breathing a big sigh of relief. They may even open a bottle of champagne or two at the re-election, for a third term, of a centre-right government with a strong mandate for economic reform.
17 Sep 2014
How mobile payment systems dodge the hackers
Craig Sims | Group General Manager Operations & Services, ANZ
When it comes to innovation in financial services, mobile payment systems are one of the big game changers. More and more customers are banking digitally.
15 Sep 2014
Alibaba, the new magic word in online retail
James Stewart | Partner and retail practice leader, Ferrier Hodgson
The global retail landscape is undergoing significant structural change, driven largely by developments in technology and consumer behaviour. The rapid innovation and development of the online retailer space gives unprecedented options to customers.
11 Sep 2014
The endless opportunities of Asia
Phil Chronican | Former CEO ANZ Australia
For some time now, there’s been a great deal of focus on the incredible pace of change that’s taking place across Asia. ANZ’s view is that the Asian financial system will grow to be than the US and Europe combined by 2030, with China dominating.
05 Sep 2014
Should you be worried about the iron ore price?
ANZ Research |
National accounts data revealed this week that growth in the Australian economy slowed in the second quarter, following strong growth earlier this year.
15 Aug 2014
Capital strong, credit quality still positive
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
We can and we are producing returns [in Asia] above our cost of capital today and we can improve from where we are now.
07 Aug 2014
Vietnamese supermarkets restrained by bikie culture
Tareq Muhmood | CEO Korea & Managing Director Global Subsidiaries, ANZ
In a recent conversation with the CEO of one of Vietnam's hypermarkets, he told me when they opened their first such huge store he didn’t realise the average spend per customer would be so low.
01 Aug 2014
Huge China ag demand key to new Aus-China brand
Michael Whitehead | Director Industry Insights and Agribusiness, ANZ
Mining magnate and philanthropist Andrew Forrest has long had an interest – now commercial – in re-energising Australia’s agricultural potential, particularly given the “food bowl to Asia” goal.
31 Jul 2014
Consumer confidence claws back to pre-budget levels
Warren Hogan & Savita Singh | Former Chief Economist & Bonds Rates Trader, ANZ
Consumer confidence rose a further 2.4 per cent to 116.2 in the week ending 27th July and has now completely retraced the sharp deterioration seen in the weeks around the Commonwealth budget. This suggests the ‘sticker shock’ from the budget was temporary, with the improvement in house prices and employment and recent signs of a pick-up in activity in the global economy likely supporting confidence at long-run average levels.
25 Jul 2014
Top takeaways from the Asia Investor Tour
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
Key themes, key charts, what participants thought.
24 Jul 2014
Big corporates strong growth story for ANZ’s Asian business
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
Revenue per major customer grows exponentially as that customer is banked across multiple countries, reinforcing the fundamentals of ANZ’s super regional strategy.
24 Jul 2014
ANZ IIB takes less risk for more income, sees through the cycle ROE around 13 per cent
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
ANZ’s International and Institutional bank is more than covering its cost of capital as it moves from investment in building an Asian network to “production” and the division’s chief executive Andrew Géczy believes a “through the cycle” return on equity of around 13 per cent is appropriate for the business.
23 Jul 2014
ANZ’s Géczy outlines new, more intense phase of Asian strategy
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
ANZ has laid out its strategy for deepening and improving returns from its super regional strategy with an emphasis on tighter customer focus, more rigorous selection of relationships and improved productivity.
23 Jul 2014
Strategy, sharper delivery drive positive ANZ outlook in Asia
Andrew Geczy | Former CEO International and Institutional Banking, ANZ
Looking out on Hong Kong harbour as I prepare to update investors on ANZ’s business in Asia, it’s very clear that this region remains the place to be.
19 Jul 2014
Mike Smith: three key steps for global growth and better governance
Mike Smith | Former Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
It would be wrong to say we have come through the worst financial and economic crisis in living memory – because we are still coming through it. We may be out of intensive care but, to extend the medical metaphor, we are now dealing with a chronic malaise rather than an acute one.
16 Jul 2014
Education one of Australia’s great growth opportunities but age is a barrier
Monish Paul | Former Education Leader, Deloitte
The old, the young and the foreign. It sounds like a pretty broad market and, vitally, those demographics represent the key sectors in an industry poised to be one of Australia’s growth champions.
04 Jul 2014
Remember NSW? It’s a leading economy once more
Phil Chronican | Former CEO ANZ Australia
A decade ago it would have been a bit obvious to say NSW was driving the Australian economy but it does actually sound slightly odd to be saying that today. After all, NSW has no iron ore, no LNG, tourism slumped in the decade after the Olympics and NSW property prices have lagged the rest of the country.
16 Jun 2014
NZ leads the rate world
Bernard Hickey | Publisher at Hive News
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has stepped further out on its own with last week’s tightening monetary policy again at a time when the rest of the developed world's central banks are either holding rates at record lows or printing money.
05 Jun 2014
New openings in India
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
New openings in India.
03 Jun 2014
Japan’s mega-banks have big Asian ambitions
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
News two of Japan’s mega-banks, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp and Mitsubishi UFJ, are stalking the American operations of French bank BNP Paribas may have caused ripples in American banking but it would be no surprise to Asians.
02 Jun 2014
Opportunities for ANZ remain strong in China
Amanda Gome | Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Opportunities for ANZ remain strong in China
19 May 2014
PNG enters a new industrial era
Mark Baker | CEO Papua New Guinea, ANZ
PNG is at a very interesting stage of development right now. There is massive potential in plain sight with the commencement of LNG shipment, while a strong period of growth is now finished following the construction phase.
13 May 2014
Shaky Isles shake up bank returns
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
Not unexpectedly, this latest reporting season for three of the four major Australian banks was typified by a hard slog on revenue, a grind on cost control and cyclically low bad and doubtful debt charges.
09 May 2014
How Aussie farmers can find the Food Bowl
David McKinna | Principal, MCKINNA
There is an apparent disconnect between the optimism around the Asian dining boom and the pessimism of many Australian farmers, at least as it is portrayed in the media.
05 May 2014
Momentum sustained: ANZ job ads series
Ivan Colhoun | Former Chief Economist, ANZ
Momentum continues to grow in the Australian economy with the ANZ Job advertisements series, a leading employment and economic activity indicator, rising for a fourth consecutive month in April. Growth signs were particularly encouraging in Australia’s biggest three states New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
02 May 2014
ANZ CFO tackles Asia growth/return question
Shayne Elliott | Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
ANZ CFO tackles Asia growth/return question.
30 Apr 2014
Asia is a point of difference, high growth and improving returns
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
Australia and New Zealand’s connection to the region is much stronger than it was say five years ago and both countries are starting to get that.
07 Apr 2014
Daylight dawns for the Asian financial system
Mike Smith | Former Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
Based as I am in Australia, I’m well used to heading to bed as European markets open and waking up – sometimes suddenly – to surprising news from the US. Even during my frequent visits to Asia, financial markets seem to be set in the dead of night. And it’s been that way for all of the 35 years that I have been working in the region.
04 Apr 2014
Uncaging the Tiger – but is it ready to escape?
Caged Tiger highlights an obvious deficiency of the Asian century: an underdeveloped financial system is constraining Asia’s economic potential. Whether we will be able to witness an Asian Century really depends on whether Asian economies can get their financial systems set up so they can leap through the middle income trap.
01 Apr 2014
Get ready for an Asian wealth boom
Joyce Phillips | Former CEO Global Wealth, ANZ
Growth in wealth in Asia will outstrip all other regions. In fact Asia (excluding Japan) will experience the highest growth in global individual wealth, which is expected to grow by between $45 and $50 trillion by 2017 - that is 11 per cent compound growth on 2011.
24 Mar 2014
Global financial centres move to Asia
ANZ Corporate Communications |
Caged Tiger: The transformation of the Asian Financial System
13 Mar 2014
From wet market to supermarket
Tania Motton | ANZ General Manager, Business Banking Australia
China’s sprawling “wet” markets dominate the sales of fresh produce – but they are not where the opportunity for primary producers lay. Growing wealth is sending Chinese shoppers to supermarkets. Packaging, distribution and marketing are critical challenges if Australian and New Zealand companies want to grow their role in “feeding the dragon”. As a China-Australia Free Trade Agreement becomes more likely, new strategies are required.
13 Mar 2014
Smart leadership, in a slower growth Asia
Jacqueline Gillespie | Senior Client Partner at Korn/Ferry International
Asia may be the most dynamic region in the world economically but growth is far from easy. And a key inhibiter to achieving success is a lack of understanding of how to actually work effectively in the region. How to develop the leadership maturity that is particularly appropriate, how to respond to rapid change and innovation. Business in Asia requires a new leadership type.
13 Mar 2014
Cashless? Or just less cash?
Steve Worthington | Professor at Swinburne University
Since the emergence of homo-sapiens more than 2000 years ago, humans have used different forms of money, both as a means of exchange and as a store of value. Despite the advent of internet banking and the various types of non-cash payment option, cash is still an omnipresent feature in most people’s purse or wallet.
15 Oct 2013
'Bold Thinking'
ANZ Corporate Communications |
The fourth report in the ANZ insight series, ‘Bold Thinking: Imagining PNG in the Asian Century’ was released on 15 October 2013.
19 Oct 2012
'Greener Pastures'
ANZ Corporate Communications |
The third report in the ANZ insight series, ‘Greener Pastures: The Global Soft Commodity Opportunity for Australia and New Zealand’ was released in October, 2012.
06 Oct 2012
'Quality Matters'
ANZ Corporate Communications |
The second report in the ANZ insight series, ‘Quality Matters: A Progress Report on Australia’s Natural Resources Export Opportunity’ was released on 6 October 2012. The report provides an update on Australia’s progress in capturing the commodity opportunity created by a developing Asia. It follows the release in 2011 of the first ANZ insight report, ‘Earth, Fire, Wind and Water: Economic Opportunities and the Australian Commodities Cycle.’