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Economic recap: Week to August 27

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
... the Hole, US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell virtually buried the Philips Curve - the inverse correlation between inflation and the unemployment rate - by announcing that henceforth, the Fed is switching from a point target of 2% inflation to achieving ...

Cost of retirement increases

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2021
... retirement standard. Its research found the price increases for retirees were considerably higher than the underlying rate of inflation for the CPI of around 1.5% over the year to June. "Small price rises across the board can add up to have a big impact ...

Economic recap: Week to August 20

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... the Fed making a policy mistake - it leaves policy too easy for long that it'll have to go hard when "transitory" inflation becomes more entrenched - and the likelihood that the Fed talking about talking tapering becomes actual tapering. Financial ...

Best fixed interest funds revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021
... funds, the best performers on a three-year basis to June 30 was the Ardea Real Outcome Fund and the iShares Government Inflation ETF which each returned 5.1% per annum. The Pendal Sustainable Australian Fixed Interest Fund returned 5% per annum on a ...

First Sentier launches infrastructure fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... roads, airports, mobile towers and data centres that have a framework of good corporate governance in It aims to provide inflation-protected income and sustainable growth while delivering upon the UN Sustainable Development Goals. "Infrastructure assets ...

Economic recap: Week to August 6

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) need to something and soon. More so, given the technical revisions in Japan's inflation measure. As a result of changing the base from 2015 to 2020, Japan's +0.2% annual headline and core inflation rates in June ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... up... until now. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that the country's annual headline inflation rate spiked to 3.8% in June from 1.1% in the March quarter. That's above the upper limit of the Reserve Bank of Australia's ...

New AIA advice unit names chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
... after a policy was terminated and treated terminated policies when they should have been in-force, and adjusted for inflation incorrectly. AIA self-reported the breaches to the FMA. The FMA said because AIA admitted the breaches at an early stage, the ...

Economic recap: Week to July 23

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... its 22 July meeting, it changed its its forward guidance. In line with its new monetary policy strategy - symmetric 2% inflation target - the ECB wouldn't be in a rush raise interest rates as soon as inflation reach two percent The ECB's latest ...

Economic recap: Week to July 16

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... month of decline in the jobless rate. Overseas, the biggest market mover was the faster-than-expected jump in US CPI inflation measures. Overall consumer prices surged by 5.4% in the year to June - the highest since an equal rate in August 2008. Core ...