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Trump slams Fed in Twitter tirade

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
Trump has taken to Twitter once again, this time, to slam the Federal Reserve and its chair Jerome Powell. The tweets follow a tumultuous start to the week for markets, with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq suffering their worst day in a decade on ...

Lack of independence must be made clear: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... members have given consent for advice fees to be paid from their superannuation choice account. ASIC commissioner Danielle Press said: "The government proposes to introduce legislation implementing the Royal Commission recommendations from 1 July 2020." ...

Mercer chief executive to step down

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Mercer Australia chief executive Ben Walsh is set to leave the global consulting firm within months, with an internal candidate picked to succeed him in the interim. In a statement, Mercer revealed Walsh would end his four year tenure as head of the ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Is this the stock market crash we have to have? The great reboot from the overvaluation in stock market prices prompted by cheap interest rates that punished savers and drove investors to go look where their capital could get higher returns? The global ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
US stocks are not expensive, despite their stretched valuations. In fact, it's all just a matter of "gravity" or the historically low interest rate environment, according to Magellan's Hamish Douglass. Speaking to a near-full crowd at the firm's ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... rate at negative 0.1% and targets the 10-year JGBs at zero, it may have very little option but to start the yen printing press.

Super fund slashes fee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
One of Australia's largest superannuation funds has dropped its pension fee by 40%, saving members $156 per year. $48 billion industry fund Hostplus said will drop its pension fee from 1 April 2020, with the change set to reduce fees from $7.50 ...

Chief economist update: Australia's gentle turning point to turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
Well, what do you know? Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe had been right all along in his claim that, "the Australian economy appears to have reached a gentle turning point". The latest Australian National Accounts proved the truth in Lowe's statement. ...

Group premiums rise 34%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
Members of Defence Bank Super and Crescent Wealth Super have been notified their insurance premiums will increase 34%, after TAL advised it would increase premium rates. The funds informed members the changes were as a result of recent legislative changes ...

Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... the ECB) expecting to "coordinate" policy responses, pause for thought. For as Fed chair Jerome Powell explained in his press conference: "We do recognise that a rate cut won't reduce the rate of infection... It won't fix a broken supply chain. ...