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Young, millionaire investors challenge stereotypes: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
... Liontown Resources at number nine. On Openmarkets, top buys for this generation in the last three months were ANZ, WHC and WBC whereas in the past year ANZ, MQG and AFI were favourited. Top sells for this cohort in the past three months were LTR, FLT ...

Macquarie shares halve in COVID-19 sell-off

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... 21, however at the time of writing was trading up 4.15%. "CBA has been the real stand out with the remain banks NAB, ANZ, WBC performing similar," Wayne said. "It's always difficult to know with certainty what's driven the moves and the discrepancy. ...

Dividend payouts stagnate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... and responsible lending. "We remain cautious on the banks given ultra-low rates and stretched multiples. We expect CBA and WBC to join ANZ and NAB in cutting dividends should rates continue to fall," the note said. Globally, total dividends paid to shareholders ...

Westpac mulls sale of in-house planners

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... planners attached to the Westpac Banking Corporation AFSL. The deal would see the buyer net about 150 of the top revenue-writing WBC planners, and the remainder of the business would eventually be wound down. There are currently about 330 authorised ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... forecasts to nil this year - as late as September 2017 ANZ and the NAB were still sticking to two 25 bps "rate hikes" for 2018 and WBC predicted no cuts "throughout the course of 2017, 2018 or 2019". Our basic premise is that were it not for the RBA's ...

Not happy enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
Australian consumers are happier in September than last month. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute (WBC-MI) index of consumer sentiment jumped by 2.5% to a reading of 97.9 this month from 95.5 in August with nearly all the survey's sub-indices recording ...

Housing is cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... claimed against rental properties. Included in the Budget is a $6.2 billion bank levy that the big four banks - ANZ, CBA, NAB, WBC - say they would pass onto their depositors, which certainly could come in the form of higher interest rates for borrow ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... Institute Index of Unemployment expectations fell by 3.1% in March pushing the Index back to around the levels in December." (WBC) Even the RBA noted as much in its March policy statement: "The forward-looking indicators point to continued expansion ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... the previous month indicates that optimists continue to outnumber pessimists (100 is the break-even point). More than this, WBC chief economist Bill Evans noted in the press release that, "Consumer Sentiment has been remarkably stable for the last six ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... economic activity relative to trend three to nine months ahead - improved from -0.15% in June to -0.12% last month. According to WBC chief economist Bill Evans, "While the growth rate of the Index remains below zero, indicating a continuation of the ...
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