ANZ Research

Award-winning research and insights

The ANZ Research team, located across our extensive network, provides market-leading insights on regional and global economies, financial and commodity markets.

Our regional economics teams provide macroeconomic analysis for our key geographies: Australia, New Zealand, Emerging Asia, Greater China and the G3 economies. While our strategists cover foreign exchange, rates, credit and commodity markets.

Together, they provide ANZ customers with detailed analysis and forecasts of current and emerging economic trends, and financial markets.

The ANZ Research team has been recognised with more than 40 top-three rankings in major industry surveys across Australia, New Zealand and Asia in the past six years, alongside numerous industry awards.

Institutional customers can access a wealth of timely information from the ANZ Research portal.

The team

Richard Yetsenga is Group Chief Economist and Head of Research at ANZ, based in Sydney. He leads the Bank's global research team, which focuses on Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Richard joined ANZ in 2011 from HSBC in Hong Kong, where he was Managing Director of Emerging Market Strategy. Prior to his seven years at HSBC, Richard held economics roles with Deutsche Bank and the Australian Government.

Richard is a member of ANZ’s Institutional Leadership Team, the Board of the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), the Business Council of Australia’s (BCA) Economic Policy Committee, the Centre for Policy Development’s (CPD) 2035 Climate Initiative Roundtable, and is Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s National Youth Employment Body.

Richard is an editorial contributor to the Financial Times, Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Wall Street Journal, Japan's Nikkei, the Hong Kong Economic Journal and Singapore’s The Business Times. Richard’s work has been published by the Lowy Interpreter and he appears regularly on CNBC, China Central TV, Bloomberg TV and other regional media.