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Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... global GDP to grow by 5.8% this year and by 4.4% in 2022. This compares with the 5.6% and 4.0%, respectively, it forecast in March and a sharp upgrade from the 4.2% (for 2021) and 3.7% (for 2022) predicted in its December 2020 report. However, it cautioned ...

Vanguard appoints fund administrator

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... clients, modernise our offer, and streamline several operational processes," a spokesperson for Vanguard Australia said. In March, Vanguard appointed GROW Inc (f ormerly Grow Super ) as its a dministrator for its superannuation offering that it expects ...

Global Merces MD cops ASIC ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... shuttered, Grofski listed on LinkedIn that she was working at Long Reef Capital, an independent investment banking firm, since March 2020. LinkedIn also shows that she has been a director at IXT, a software firm that automates process for investment ...

Pengana Capital distribution executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... executive leading the international fund's distribution efforts, exiting not long after two portfolio managers left in March. Joy Yacoub was the executive director of business strategy and distribution, a spokesperson confirmed to Financial Standard ...

Chief economist update: The UK's going OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... headline inflation rose to 1.5% in April (from 0.7% in the previous month); core inflation quickened to 1.3% from 1.1% in March. The IHS Markit/CIPS PMI survey found that: "May data pointed to the fastest increase in average cost burdens across the UK ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory against the virus voided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... improve despite the withdrawal of the government's JobKeeper scheme. The country's unemployment rate fell from 5.7% in March to 5.5% in April - just 0.2 percentage points (or 33,000 people) above the start of the pandemic and 2.0 percentage points ...

Former adviser charged with $3.3m fraud

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... obtaining financial advantage by deception. The 42-year-old from Artarmon allegedly defrauded clients between May 2017 and March 2020 as an authorised representative of Sentinel. The police kicked off investigations in March 2020, when the North Shore ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ will run out of patience next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... equals higher wages growth, reading: "Annual LCI private sector wage inflation is assumed to accelerate from 1.6% in the March 2021 quarter to 2.4% at the end of the year, reflecting the April 2021 minimum wage increase and a tightening labour market. ...

Superannuation assets hit $3.13tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
Superannuation assets hit a record high of $3.127 trillion at the end of the March 2021, new APRA figures show. This is a 15.1% increase year on year, APRA said in releasing the quarterly figures, attributing the growth to strong investment performance. ...

Chief economist update: China and Australia's interdependence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
... Reuters points out, "imports by the rest of the world are rising, with ex-China arrivals estimated at 41.25 million tonnes in March, up from 34.43 million in February and 35.76 million in January" - a likely offshoot of the strengthening global recovery ...