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Future Fund to hire 70 for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... Melbourne, where Future Fund is based with the rest in Sydney as required. Earlier in the hearings, Arndt addressed inflation concerns. "Policy settings continue to support markets for the time being. But this is priced into assets and unwinding these ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ will run out of patience next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... "The Committee agreed to maintain its current stimulatory monetary settings until it is confident that consumer price inflation will be sustained near the 2% per annum target midpoint, and that employment is at its maximum sustainable level. Meeting ...

Chief economist update: Twist in tail of Aussie economic revival

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... attributed to supply shortages, difficulties in international shipping and increased employment costs. The overall rate of inflation reached a survey peak." "Prices charged also rose at the fastest pace on record as companies sought to protect their ...

Chief economist update: Recovery flashing hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2021
... surprises in Markit's latest roundup that the global recovery is getting hot, hot, hot. But the latest survey shows that inflation is too. In the US: "Average selling prices for goods and services are both rising at unprecedented rates, which will ...

Chief economist: The wages of slow wages growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... capacity and for the labour market to be tight enough to generate wage increases that are consistent with achieving the inflation target... Looking through this, underlying inflation is expected to remain below 2% over the next few years." The Australian ...

Tempered positivity post-pandemic: Experts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... rates have resulted in an asymmetry where it is very difficult for central banks to raise rates. "Last week the April inflation numbers were at a 24-year high, that's partly due to supply bottlenecks due to the opening up of the economy," he said. "For ...

Chief economist update: Confidently sustaining the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... and dandy, Andy. The question now is whether Australia is having too much of a good thing that a bad thing - rising inflation - is on its way. So far so good. The NAB Business survey revealed that while final product prices accelerated to a quarterly ...

Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... policies could have a pleasant outcome. "Our view is that we are likely to see 1980s style growth without 1970s style inflation," Cantrill said. Financial Standard is the official media partner for the Conference of Major Super Funds, happening in Adelaide ...

Investment Leadership Awards finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... Management - Atrium AEF 9 BMO Global Asset Management - BMO Pyrford Global Absolute Ret. MLC Investment Management - MLC Inflation Plus - Moderate ESG - Australian Equities Alphinity Investment Management - Alphinity Sustainable Share Fund Australian ...

Chief economist update: A half-glass full look at inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
Inflation was the "word" over the week that was. Concerns over US inflation eased somewhat at the start of last week after US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed disappointing labour market stats. The US economy added 266,000 jobs in April, well ...