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Findex assigns Aussie equities mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... risk that often weighs down a fund management group." The Altair investment management team includes former UBS chief economist Steve Roberts and Gerard Minack, who was previously head of global developed markets strategy for the entire Morgan Stanley ...

Access to super for housing is still bad policy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... retirement savings and drive up housing prices while doing nothing to address supply. It's simply bad policy," ISA chief economist Stephen Anthony said. FSC chief officer Sally Loane was quick to remind members of the objective of superannuation; to ...

Good for now worrying for later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... Virginia, the sky is not falling. More so because the February "give back" didn't come as a surprise either. NAB chief economist Alan Oster warned about this when the NAB Business Survey for January was released last month. "a degree of caution should ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... Case in point, when China lowered its 2016 growth target, about this time last year, to 6.5%-7% from 7.0% in 2015, 'The Economist' magazine called it a "lofty target", stating that "many economists had reckoned that Chinese growth would be less than ...

Chinese inflation slows and quickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
People's Bank of China (PBOC) deputy governor Yi Gang's predicted inflation rate of 2% - 3% for this year appears at risk should the recent sharp slowdown in CPI inflation persist over the coming months. Headline inflation increased by a mere 0.8% in ...

Forward thinking must underpin advice: Vanguard

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... advisers should look beyond short term economic and geopolitical events to long term global trends, Vanguard global chief economist and investment strategy group head Joseph Davis says. Speaking at the fund manager's adviser roadshow in Sydney on Wednesday ...

Home deposits unwelcome in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... policy as it could reduce retirement savings and drive up housing prices while doing nothing to address supply. ISA chief economist Stephen Anthony said: "In the housing affordability debate, the focus should be on land release, regulation and tax subsidies ...

Industry super attacks SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
... sector is a result of members having low levels of financial literacy. Citing a 2016 working paper from CIFR, ISA chief economist Stephen Anthony said the 5.5% increase in SMSF membership in 2015 was attributable to members "having low financial literacy ...

A tale of three PMIs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
... and stronger increases in output, new orders, new export orders and employment. Commenting on the survey, IHS Markit economist Samuel Agass declares that, "Encouragingly, with backlogs of work accumulating for the first time in 14 months, the added pressures ...

Bump in business confidence and conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
... well as in employment which rose to a reading of 7 in January from 2 in December and November. According to NAB chief economist Alan Oster, "These outcomes are certainly pointing to an improvement in the domestic economy after a soft patch through much ...