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Un-Keynesian

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... be embedded in market pricing when president Trump signs the tax cuts into law in Uncle Sam county (reportedly before Christmas). But while our American brothers may have themselves a merry little Christmas in 2017 and the next couple of years, the longer ...

New advice firm taps young professional market

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... clean and strategically map out what 2018 will look like. We're gearing up to be a lot busier than we thought over the Christmas break." Steering away from the aged care and retirement end of the advice market, Fox & Hare is targeting young professionals ...

Financial services industry welcomes 'Yes' result

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... get on with it, to get on with the job the Australian people have tasked us to do and get this done. This year, before Christmas - that must be our commitment," he added. In the lead up to the announcement, more than 60 major financial services institutions ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
It's beginning to look a lot like the Grinch will steal Christmas 2017 and investors would be happy just to get the two-front teeth in their hanged stockings. That's the feeling many an investor would get upon the reading the nasty news, exemplified ...

Interim chief executive leaves listed advice firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... said Paul will continue to assist with operational matters in the interim. Separately, Spring FG also announced the pre-Christmas launch of its direct-to-consumer fintech platform, MyMoney247. The platform will enable consumers to link hundreds of Australian ...

Christmas not spent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
Bah, humbug! This appears to be the message from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on retail spending. The report showed that domestic retail sales fell by 0.1% in the month of December following a small 0.1% gain in the previous ...

A$ drop brings good cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
So this is Christmas and what have you done (John Lennon)? No, it wasn't me, it was Donald! Thanks to the good tidings Santa Trump delivered (or talked of delivering) - infrastructure building and rebuilding, deregulation, tax reform. Ones that are ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... growth rate since the week ended 9 January this year and represented the The acceleration in the index indicates a robust Christmas shopping season and buoyant retail spending. Eurozone labour costs Hourly labour costs in the Eurozone increased by 1.5% ...

Super headaches from ATO system crash

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... outage in recent history, potentially delaying Australians from consolidating or transferring their superannuation before Christmas. The outage began on Monday 12 December, and as of yesterday ATO staff were still working through the restoration of several ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
It's now a week before Christmas and two before we bid 2016 adieu! And what a year 2016 was. It scared you, I and Irene at the open. The Fed was going to raise interest rates and China's economy was heading for hard landing. These two factors alone ...