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ASIC removes Societe Generale restrictions

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... when Societe Generale deposited client money into five overseas unapproved bank accounts on around 7363 occasions. The average end-of-month total value of client-money during the breaching periods totalled approximately $771 million and the bank was ...

Australia among the richest nations

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... acquired an extra $53,000 (US$40,000) in wealth, respectively. The research found a huge disparity in the distribution of average wealth. Nations that recorded the highest wealth per adult (above US$100,000) are located in North America, Western Europe ...

SG increase to self-fund retirement

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... reaching a comfortable standard of retirement. As of July 1, the SG rate will rise from 9.5% to 10% and ASFA showed the average Australian 30-year-old worker will have $19,000 more in their super at retirement as a result. The superannuation guarantee ...

Coolabah lists fund on Chi-X

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... issued by governments, banks, corporates, and asset-backed securities and residential mortgage-backed securities with an average target credit rating of A. Coolabah has priced the Chi-X fund at 30bps per year. "We are pleased to be able to grow our relationship ...

Chief economist update: Chinese activity indicators disappoint but growth target intact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
Disappointing. This is the one word that describes the latest batch of activity indicators out of China. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released retail sales, industrial production and fixed asset investment that were still stronger than usual ...

Employers should pay SG rise: ASFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... ASFA argued the Australian economic recovery is fuelling business profits that its staff have been missing out on. "The average Australian worker has not shared in ballooning business profits over the last twenty years," ASFA chief executive Martin Fahy ...

Chief economist update: It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... recent lockdown in Melbourne denting consumer confidence in June, the reading of 107.2 remains well-above its long-term average of 101.4 and is 14.5% higher than it was a year earlier. As per Westpac, "Jobs confidence' is still positive, the index ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... (ABS) recently released Residential Property Price Indexes: Eight Capital Cities told us what we already know. Weighted average of the eight capital cities in the Residential Property Price Index : rose 5.4% this quarter. rose 7.5% over the last 12 months. ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... provided a bit of perspective on the red hot residential property markets of Australia's capital cities. There was a 7.3% average change in prices across 56 countries and territories, with Turkey experiencing the highest rate of annual price growth in ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... the low side. As per Factset, "Kyodo cited Japan Business Federation figures showing major companies have agreed on an average pay hike of 1.82% in this year's annual spring wage negotiations, falling below 2% for the time since 2013 and the slowest ...