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Four steps up, four steps down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... gets when one looks at the history of the RBNZ's adjustments to its official cash rate target over the past few years. Yesterday's decision by New Zealand's central bank's to cut interest rates - the fourth time this year - by 25 bps to 2.5% completes ...

Economist says innovation one small part of growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... Australia's fiscal growth according to a chief economist. Providing his global economic and market outlook at a media briefing yesterday, Standard Life Investments chief economist Jeremy Lawson said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faced significant challenges ...

First State Super hitches cart to Turnbull innovation

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... opportunity is gigantic. It's as big as the financial services sector," Turnbull said. Turnbull's innovation statement yesterday included measures that will see early stage venture capital limited partnerships boosted by a 10% non-refundable tax offset ...

Industry welcomes Innovation Statement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... financial services industry and beyond. Among a package of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra yesterday were tax breaks for early stage investors, an incubator support program, investment in cyber security, new visas, greater ...

Super governance saga continues

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... Vamos said. The letter was part of the latest chapter in the super fund governance narrative. It took a vigorous twist yesterday when Industry Super Australia (ISA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) announced they had struck ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... quarter of 2011" in the September quarter of 2015. See doc, I've got more bad tidings than you have. And yet, and yet, yesterday's National Accounts show that the Australian economy expanded by a better-than-expected 0.9% in the third quarter, taking ...

ASX jumps "despite" naughty news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... from China]," Ms Bitel told Fairfax Media on a visit to Australia." (AFR) Now compare these "feel good" comments with yesterday's SMH news headline, "'Australia headed for recession': Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister". I must confess I'm ...

CIPRs not the entire answer for retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... retirement solutions are most needed. Speaking at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference yesterday, Towers Watson Australia head of retirement income Nick Callil said there is no silver bullet when attempting to create ...

Senate to investigate white-collar crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... following calls from regulators and Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray to strengthen the system. The Senate voted yesterday in favour of a Greens motion to establish the inquiry. Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said that "the current system ...

Super funds should engage in pub theory

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... director of the Program on Behavioural Economics and Public Policy, Professor Cass Sunstein, told the ASFA conference yesterday there has been a wealth of investment in behavioural insights teams globally and all aimed at nudging people in directions ...