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RBA blames lack of demand in property downturn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
... established housing market." "2020 looks like being the low year for the residential construction sector. The long lead times on higher-density construction mean the supply response is likely to be slow. The tight conditions on lending to developers ...

TPD riddled with issues: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
... catastrophic circumstances". "Three out of five of the claims assessed under this narrow cover are declines. This is five times high than the average decline claim for all other TPD claims," the report said. ASIC also warned that poor claims handling ...

Chief economist update: Brexit uncertainty is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... tall ask (if the UK wants to exit with a "deal") with only a few weeks to go before the deadline for unlike in the medieval times, the kingdom's ruler is now a figurehead. The chance of the UK leaving the EU on October 31 is 100% if the divorce is ...

Chief economist update: Zero here we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... world were proclaiming, "We need to raise interest rates now to avoid lifting rates by more in the future" during the good times. On 1 October 2019, the RBA announced its third interest rate reduction in five months - 25 basis points each in June and ...

Frontier veteran to depart

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... in institutional investments. She was named among the top 25 asset consultants around the world by CIO Magazine multiple times, starting in 2013. Her last day at Frontier will be December 6. She intends to focus on her non-executive roles, the asset ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
"Patience is a virtue." We've heard, read and seen this quote many, many times. This is a quote that's so easy to say but difficult to apply - more so if you're the head of one of the world's biggest central banks, presiding over a fast ...

Industry embraces Mental Health Month

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... mental health and wellbeing. "Most accountants enjoy their jobs, but sometimes their roles can be very stressful, and at times quite lonely. Accountants often work with people and businesses that are experiencing some level of stress around their finances ...

Chief economist update: Are capital markets the next Sino-US battleground?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... inched up by 0.1% (it closed before the news), China shares traded on the US exchanges dropped. According to the Financial Times : "E-commerce giant Alibaba's shares were down 5%, search engine Baidu dropped almost 4% and the depository receipts ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... infrastructure and environmental projection - as well as monetary ones - the PBOC has cut the reserve requirement ratio several times from 17% in March 2018 to a 12-year low of 13% in September this year and cut the one-year loan prime rate down to 4.2% ...

The importance of reducing risk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... Jason Teh said retirees need to manage sequencing risk to preserve capital, especially when the market is seeing troubled times. "Once you spend 40-years building that nest egg, it's all about de-risking your portfolio. You have to ask yourself, when ...