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Agriculture high on industry fund agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... transparency in wholesale agricultural markets and neutralise big supermarket and international subsidy impacts. ISA chief economist Stephen Anthony said with the right expertise and policy settings, industry superannuation funds could be enticed to ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... retail sales surged by 1.0% in the month of April - more than three times the expected growth of 0.3%. But as JP Morgan economist Tom Kennedy explains, the large increase (2.4% in the month of April) in Queensland "suggests that replacement buying following ...

Sunsuper hires investment manager from Mercer

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... dealer roles with the RBA. McNally's appointment to the investment team follows an investment update from Sunsuper chief economist Brian Parker, who noted an increased interest in alternatives, including hedge funds and unlisted assets. He said the diversification ...

Treasurer opens the way for increased infrastructure spending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Federal treasurer Scott Morrison is laying the groundwork for a boost in national infrastructure investment after unveiling changes to the way government debt is reported. In his final pre-budget speech, delivered to the Australian Business Economists ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... support between left and right in order to "unblock" the French economy, and to support the transatlantic alliance." (The Economist) In literal contrasts, Mademoiselle Le Pen "plans to cut legal immigration in France to 10,000 people a year, put a tax ...

Negative gearing exposing Australia's poor: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... income, at 8.5% per annum, compared to an average of 2.3% over the past decade for other households. KPMG Australia chief economist Brendan Rynne said: "While it is perhaps understandable that the poorest members of our society want to diversify and ...

Confidence slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... confidence - down to +6 in March (at par with its long-run average) from +7 in February and +9 in January. As NAB chief economist Alan Oster explains, the "recent volatility and ongoing weakness in the retail sector suggests there is still cause to be ...

Citi appoints government affairs head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... external affairs and investment. Prior to that, he was both the president of the Australian Services Roundtable and chief economist at the Financial Services Council. He has also been a government relations manager at PwC, a senior adviser at the Office ...

Yarra Capital recruits senior VFMC manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... Strano spent four years with Challenger as a senior analyst and portfolio manager, and has also worked at NAB as an economist and analyst before joining the institutional banking team. Yarra Capital managing director Dion Hershan said the firm is delighted ...

Housing affordability threatens super's future

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... living, after housing costs, as if they had owned their own home. It's an expectation which report author and renowned economist Saul Eslake described as "completely unrealistic." The report, No place like home: the impact of declining home ownership ...