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Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... 5.8%. The 64 million dollar question is, would Australia's luck hold out or would it luck out? For sure, the "Lucky Country" would make it to its 28th year recession-free economic performance (the last recession was in the June quarter of 1991) with ...

Why do we need royal commissions, Hayne asks

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... royal commissions and what it says about our democracy. "The increasingly frequent calls for Royal Commissions in this country cannot, and should not, be dismissed as some passing fad or fashion," Hayne said in a speech made at Melbourne Law School on ...

Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... China does not seem to be a currency manipulator." "To qualify under the Treasury's "enhanced monitoring" system, a country has to have a significant bilateral trade surplus with America and a material current-account surplus, and to have made a ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... against each other. Trump must have read General George Patton's words: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." But in this war, the bastard is us all!

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... a small additional Tariff of 10% on the remaining 300 Billion Dollars of goods and products coming from China into our Country" [ sic ]. Yes folks, Trump's fired at China again, and this "small" 10% could presumably be raised to 25% at a later date ...

Pengana adds fee class for global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... the strategy with a lower management fee of 0.65% with a 15% performance fee for returns above the benchmark MSCI All Country World Index. The fund has underperformed the MSCI All Country World Index in AUD by 0.38% in since inception in July 2015. It ...

Pinnacle kicks off race to zero-fee ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... where they make their money," Higgins says. "If it's going to happen, we need a larger investor base, which is tough in a country of just 25 million people unless it becomes a lot easier to trade ETFs overseas." Both Vynokur and Higgins liken zero-fees ...

All options open for retirement income review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... not going to limit it. "But the government's policy, let me be very clear, is what is set out in what the law of this country is and our policy hasn't changed." Despite Morrison's assertion, the industry has swiftly responded to the agitations of ...

NZ Super Fund invests in hotels

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
The $40 billion New Zealand Super Fund is investing $287 million in the country's hotels, starting with three properties in Auckland and Christchurch. The portfolio was established by Russell Group and Lockwood Property Group. It includes Four Points ...

JP Morgan-linked ship in US $1bn drug bust

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... will pursue the most severe consequences possible against all involved parties in order to protect our district - and our country." The federal criminal investigation is ongoing and crew members of the ship have been charged with knowingly and intentionally ...