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ISA ramps up campaign against super reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has significantly ramped up its campaign against the Morrison government's Your Future, Your Super reforms package saying it will only serve to help dud funds. ISA said the reforms package will benefit the big banks and ...

Chief economist update: Confidence unlocks Australia's virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... Australians all, are in a good place for not only do we have more money thanks to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Morrison government's largesse - but the wherewithal to spend and/or borrow to spend - and the motivation to spend, and ...

Chief economist update: China keeps on going and going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... ore prices at US$55/tonne. So far this year, it's averaged more than US$100/tonne. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is correct in stating that: "The relationship with China is a mutually beneficial one. It supports both our countries and ...

Chief economist update: David Australia versus Goliath China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... diplomatic and trade tensions between Australia and China that traces its progeny with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison calling for an inquiry into the origins of the pandemic. It was downhill in Sino-Aussie relations from there. China placed ...

Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... that's bound to reduce the budget deficit the Treasury forecast in the Budget Papers 2020/2021 and/or provide the Morrison administration more firepower just in case. The budget papers released last month forecast iron ore prices to settle at around ...

JobKeeper saved 700,000 jobs: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... have stayed employed this year without it, according to a research paper from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The Morrison government announced a series of fiscal measures at the start of the year in response to the sharp fall in economic activity ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... world. But the way it's going for this land down under, it wouldn't be a surprise to find Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Reserve Bank of Australia chief Philip Lowe - also known as Team Australia - crooning ...

Chief economist update: Australian wages slow but still grow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... previous one. Annual private sector wages growth slowed to 1.2% from 1.7%. Public sector wages slowed to 1.8% from 2.1%. The Morrison government's Jobkeeper scheme has short-circuited the lagged negative correlation between wages growth and the underemployment ...

Hastings founder launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... get access to four unlisted funds: AMP Capital Diversified Infrastructure Trust, First Sentier's GDIF Master Fund, Morrison & Co's Utilities Trust of Australia and the Macquarie-managed The Infrastructure Fund (TIF). The business has also hired ...

Cost of advice soars as red tape grows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... clients. Each new layer of regulation increases the cost of advice and adds further complexity." De Gori pointed to the Morrison government's soon to be established new disciplinary system and single disciplinary body for financial planners. The new ...