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The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... to avoid that". Inflation expectations - as measured by the 10-year yield differential between US Treasuries and TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities) have clearly trended lower. The differential stood at 1.7% overnight, down 1.94% at the start ...

MyRetirement too product heavy: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... product-centric and a mandatory digital advice component be made available for retirees. In a discussion paper submitted to Treasury on Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement (CIPRs), Morningstar urges the Government to take an approach that goes ...

PAC secures $33m in insto capital

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... March to implement a major restructure of its business to resolve issues arising from the merger of operations between Treasury Group and Northern Lights Capital group under the then-jointly-controlled Aurora Trust. PAC's goal was to secure full control ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... Principles and Plans, lays out the details: "For payments of principal that the Federal Reserve receives from maturing Treasury securities, the Committee anticipates that the cap will be $6 billion per month initially and will increase in steps of $6 ...

Super tax reforms take effect

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... streams have passed through Parliament. Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer said the amendments under the Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Measures No. 2) Bill will "improve the fairness, sustainability, and flexibility of the superannuation ...

Banks narrowly avoid parliamentary inquiry

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... resisted a Royal Commission into the banks, instead announcing in the May budget a $6.2 billion bank tax, $1.1 million to Treasury to oversee the timely implementation of A More Accountable and Competitive Banking System, and $1.2 million to undertake ...

Agriculture high on industry fund agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... consortia with local and foreign processors and distribution networks to reduce agricultural sales risk. It also recommends Treasury take a more strategic approach to foreign investment rules; and that an ACCC regulatory arrangement be established, leading ...

Actuaries warn against one size fits all retirement products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... saying a prescriptive approach would see the proliferation of sub-scale, unsustainable products. In its submission to Treasury's MyRetirement review, the institute advised that the framework - which should apply to all super funds - must meet both the ...

Super reforms hit parliament

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... super balance. "As such, the changes to death benefits remain scheduled to commence from 1 July 2017," he noted. The Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Measures No. 2) Bill 2017 will need to be passed by both houses of parliament to be law.

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... 'reinvestment policy". "...the Committee would announce a set of gradually increasing caps, or limits, on the dollar amounts of Treasury and agency securities that would be allowed to run off each month, and only the amounts of securities repayments ...