The Aussie Debrief May 2021

Su-Lin Ong is a Managing Director of RBC Capital Markets, Chief Economist & Senior Relationship Manager. She has led the Economics & Fixed Income Strategy team for Australia and New Zealand since 2010 and was Head of Australian research between 2015 and 2019.

Su-Lin is part of RBC’s global strategy team with responsibility for formulating and presenting the Australian macroeconomic outlook, cash rate view and bond yield forecasts.   Prior to joining RBC in 1998, Su-Lin was a fixed income economist for Hambros Bank and before that worked as an economist at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra.   She holds a Bachelor of Economics from University of Sydney, post graduate in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia, is a Fellow of FINSIA, and graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She sits on the boards of Women in Banking & Finance and The Australian Business Economists.

Robert Thompson is the Macro Rates Strategist, Australia.  He works closely with Su-Lin Ong – Chief Economist in the Global Strategy Team which covers Australian rates and economics with a primary focus on relative value research on ACGBs, Semis, SSAs and derivatives.  He began in financial markets as intern at Westpac, and after completing their graduate program in 2013 spent four years in the fixed income strategy team, most of this as a rates specialist.  Robert holds a Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney.