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Employer super contributions down as jobless figure rises

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... down to a number of factors, including a rise in unemployment - from 5.1% in June 2012 to 5.7 % in June 2013 - and slowing GDP growth. "It is also possible that the leakage to SMSFs is taking higher contributing members from the APRA regulated sector ...

Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... refer to the Australian economy's growth rate in the second quarter.A The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that real GDP grew by 0.6% in the June quarter and 2.5% over the year. Wonderful!A The economy's picking up pace from the 0.5% (quarterly) ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... economy continued to grow below trend in the second quarter when the Australian National Accounts are released - experts guess GDP growth of 0.6% on the quarter and 2.5% year-on-year.A That's still below trend growth of 3.0%. The disappointing retail ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... decent growth despite offshore volatility and domestic uncertainty - tomorrow's National Accounts is expected to show real GDP growth of 0.6% in the second quarter (2.5% year-on-year) - what more with the reduction/elimination of these. But boo hoo hoo.A ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... down from 7.3% in January 1993 to 5.5% by December 1994.A And why not, America's economic growth was going gangbusters. Real GDP grew at an average year-on-year pace of more than 4.0% in 1994, up from an average of 2.7% in the previous year.A And inflation?A ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... it...it's all systems go! There's only one conclusion that can be concluded from the upward revision in second quarter US real GDP growth - up at annualised rate of 2.5% from the prelim 1.7% estimate - and Wall Street's positive reaction to that... Need ...

Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013

Super assets hit $1.6 trillion, investment returns at 4-year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... ratio that reduces to 60% if SMSFs are included in the analysis. Superannuation assets are now 9% larger than Australia's GDP which in the year to end March 2013 stood at $1.484 trillion.

Uncertainty stinks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013

Out of the woods and into?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013