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Industry funds team up in longevity search

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... stages of retirement. "It's a bit like not insuring your house and holding money back from your day-to-day budget. And economics tells us self-insurance is an inefficient way for [longevity risk]," he says, likening it to ABP withdrawals where retirees ...

ME Bank chief resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... satisfaction, based on Roy Morgan banking research." At the start of June, McPhee appeared before the Standing Committee on Economics where he faced tough questioning from Liberal MP Tim Wilson over the bank's handling of the adjustment of redraw ...

Chief economist update: Not easy easing restrictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
"As the economy reopens, incoming data are beginning to reflect a resumption of economic activity: Many businesses are opening their doors, hiring is picking up, and spending is increasing. Employment moved higher, and consumer spending rebounded strongly ...

Chief economist update: Good as gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has affected lives, livelihood and financial markets around the world. Commodity markets were no exception. S&P GSCI commodity price index dropped by 48.7% to a 17-year low of 228.24 points in April from this year's high ...

Chief economist update: UK plans for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
The United Kingdom has followed the script dictated by the coronavirus pandemic in much of the world. On March 23, the government imposed strict lockdown measures, giving "bobbies" power to fine people leaving their homes for "non-essential" reasons. ...

Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
All of Metropolitan Melbourne will be back in lockdown before the clock strikes midnight tonight. Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services advises that from 11:59pm, 8 July 2020, Melburnians will only be allowed to leave home for four ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... effective way to generate "maximum economic bang for the government's buck". In an opinion piece for The Conversation, economics lecturer Isaac Gross argued a six-month break from the 10% tax would help fight the COVID-19 recession. It comes as PwC proposes ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's secret

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
In Fist of Fury, it is a sign stating "No dogs or Chinese" that draws the ire of the legendary Bruce Lee. But Australians are not seeing Victorians punching, kicking and screaming when the nation's five states and two territories put up the "No ...

Chief economist update: A tale of two quarters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." -- 'A Tale of Two Cities' ...

AMP should stop whining: Slater and Gordon

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... an agenda to make class actions more difficult. Appearing before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on Tuesday, De Ferrari was asked how many class actions AMP was currently facing. After answering that AMP is facing two actions ...