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Efficiency key to performance in low-return world

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... or market shocks; the report highlighted these issues were magnified following projections by the International Monetary Fund that global markets will see low growth until 2020. Given the difficulties in generating returns in this climate, it's unsurprising ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... Kingdom. A UK vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions." There's the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warning that Brexit is "the largest near-term risk" to the UK economy, it could spark a crash in the stock and ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... accurately, risk assets -- have gone up, up and away in the week ended 15 April -- the very week when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recalibrated its growth forecasts for the world... and found it slowing even more than its previous guesses. In ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... Outlook Another 3 months, another downgrade. In its April World Economic Outlook (WEO) update, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has yet again revised down its global growth forecasts. The IMF now expects the global economy to grow by 3.2% this year ...

And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... Chinese yuan will formally join the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound in the International Monetary Fund's basket of reserve currencies known as Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) come 1 October 2016. Anti-climax because the IMF's ...

Banking and Finance Oath reshuffles board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... career in the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and has also worked for the Commonwealth Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008 for his services to financial regulation. Also joining ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... speak. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer reportedly "told a group on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru" that the Fed will raise interest rates this year. But (of course there's a but, it's Fedspeak), this is ...

Seniors weigh in on national tax discussion

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... ensure it remains sustainable and equitable." In its latest economic assessment of Australia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said any changes to Australia's tax and superannuation system would need to regard the country's "already highly-progressive ...

Aussie pension policy needs careful adjustment: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Australia's complex superannuation system disproportionately benefits higher-income earners and "undermines the progressivity of the income tax system." The IMF's latest economic assessment of Australia says ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... "Australia will be the worst-hit advanced economy from slowing Chinese investment growth, according to International Monetary Fund research. Only Iran, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Zambia and Chile would suffer bigger effects on their economies." (Australian ...