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Chief economist update: The AUD's resilience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... the reason behind the RBA's insistence last year that the "the likelihood of the next move in interest rates is up rather than down." The AUD was depreciating against the USD (down by 10% in 2018) and in trade weighted terms (down by 6.5%). This ...

Negative gearing reforms not a panacea: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... Election. The Real Estate Institute of Australia president Adrian Kelly said while it welcomes the promise to consult, it would rather do so now - not after the election. All property taxes should also be considered, Kelly said, adding a holistic approach ...

RBA issues stern climate change warning

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... 0.7 percentage points." Debelle highlighted that supply shocks associated with climate change should be considered trends rather than a cyclical phenomenon. Natural disasters and extreme weather events like droughts are usually followed by an economic ...

HNW advice firm backs AfterPay rival

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... differs from AfterPay in that it provides customer financing for bigger ticket items that are "more considered purchases rather than smaller impulse buys", such as home improvement, education, dental work, health, direct sales and beauty. "[We practice] ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... to its neutral range 2.5% -3.5%); and the Reserve Bank of Australia ("the next move in interest rate is likely to be up rather than down"). And that's not all of them. The US dollar's appreciation - a consequence to the Fed's rate hikes and ...

MSCI ups China A-shares, managers respond

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... have a strong foreign institutional investor base, who in general focus more on risk-adjusted returns over the long-term rather than absolute return potential in the short-term." Moffett also believes the change could bring big inflows from active managers. ...

KPMG brings remediation regtech to Australia

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... The really encouraging thing is the determination business leaders are showing in addressing the root cause of the issues rather than papering over the cracks," she said. "It's good news for consumers and the industry as a whole."

SMSF darlings revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... expensive, but which have been caught up in the general downturn. Their focus has been on finding quality at a reasonable price, rather than just 'cheap' stocks." Most popular ETFs and LICs The number of SMSF investors holding at least one ETF ...

Grandfathered commissions ban splits industry: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... transition has passed," Hayne said. "Advisers have an incentive to keep their clients in products with grandfathered commissions rather than advise them to move to better products. There can be, and is, no justification for maintaining the grandfathering ...

Super needs a clear objective: Cooper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... revenue and to fund those important services." He added Labor's policy wasn't part of an attack on the SMSF sector, but rather a portion of a suite of changes it was proposing across the wealth management board, including changes to negative gearing ...