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Chief economist update: Hard target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... August 2016 - governor Philip Lowe declared 4.5% is the unemployment rate at which wages start to lift and feed into inflation. Latest data show Australia's unemployment rate at 5.2% in May; headline CPI inflation at 1.3% in the March quarter and ...

Charter Hall industrial fund scores top Lonsec rating

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... positioned in terms of future rental increases with increases either by CPI or 3% p.a. "which helps provide a natural inflation hedge." "The Fund seeks to benefit from growing tenant demand for long-term leases of large, well-located and adaptable industrial ...

Industry fund awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... Ardea, Coolabah and Kapstream. The fund took a decision to hold longer duration bonds, moving away from cash plus and inflation plus products, Block said in a May interview with Financial Standard. "We wanted to ensure our bond product was true to label ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... addition, expectations that the Fed would need to raise interest rates to prevent the boom from sparking above target inflation would further raise upward pressure on the US currency. Beggar-thy-neighbour policies have never worked in the past. And it ...

Chief economist update: The back-to-back rate cuts Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... closely and adjust monetary policy IF needed to support sustainable growth in the economy and the achievement of the inflation target over time." Expect more RBA snip, snip, snips coming our way for Lowe has just recently shifted the goalpost. The Australian ...

Australians rapidly gaining wealth: Roy Morgan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... These are the key findings from the Roy Morgan Wealth Report, this means that even allowing for population growth and inflation the average Australian is better off. The report covers the period from just before the Global Financial Crisis until 2019 ...

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... 7.4% this fiscal year (starting April) from an increase of 1.2% in the December 2018 survey. Low and way below target inflation remains the BOJ's bugbear. Headline CPI inflation slowed to 0.7% in the year to May (from 0.9% in April) and core inflation ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... rate, lowering the cost of finance and boosting disposable incomes. In turn, this will support employment growth and inflation consistent with the target." "It would, however, be unrealistic to expect that lowering interest rates by 1/4 of a percentage ...

Chief economist update: Expect an RBNZ rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... 4.2% in the March 2019 quarter - close to the 10-year low of 4% recorded in September last year - the country's inflation rate had been decelerating further away from its 1%-3% target. Headline CPI inflation eased to 1.5% in the year to the March ...

Chief economist update: ECB to leave no policy tool unturned

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... changed from "summer 2019" - and "in any case for as long as necessary to ensure the continued sustained convergence of inflation to levels that are below, but close to, 2% over the medium term". Euro economists and investors may as well scratch that ...