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China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... told Australia that "We're explicitly forecasting that there will have been an income recession in the past two quarters". Yes Virginia, Australia has to have a recession. We can't get it on the national output measure... so we got a recession in the ...

Government using super as "petri dish": Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
Labor's Jim Chalmers said the federal government sees superannuation as "some kind of petri dish for one ideological experiment after another" during a debate in federal parliament yesterday. The superannuation trustee governance bill won't be debated ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... decision, "There will always be one piece of data that says hold off, but in the end they are still going to have to do it." Yes Virginia, for sure and for certain the Fed will have to lift some time, what is uncertain is when. Or could they? When mere ...

VFMC appoints acting chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) has appointed its chief investment officer as acting chief executive while the search for a new leader continues. VFMC announced yesterday that chief executive Warren Lee has departed the corporation and ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said the regulator has a significant number of individual surveillances underway at the big four banks, Macquarie and AMP. Speaking at the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) ...

New super Shadow Minister as PM acknowledges Labor's plans

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
New Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Jim Chalmers, said he will build on Labor's proud record in superannuation and advance a "more resilient, fair and competitive financial system." Chalmers joined several first-term Labor ...

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Here we go again folks, the China is kaput story is back in the headlines again. What went up last week - some through to yesterday - are back down again all because, they say, financial markets didn't like what they saw in the China's trade data where ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... week - the first 7 trading days of October - after the quarter - the worst three-months since September 2011 - before. Oh yes, yes, yo Virginia, we're happy little vegemites once more with most equity markets recouping in seven days more than half of ...

Super to fund Aussie infrastructure: Shorten

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten has made it no secret he will look to Australia's superannuation industry to unlock billions in capital investment for key infrastructure projects. Unveiling Labor's infrastructure plans at a Queensland Media Club ...

NIRP before lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... subtracting another 59,000 jobs (confirmed by the Labor Market Conditions Index drop to zero from a reading of 1.2 in August). Yes Virginia, bad news is again good news. No one now expects the Fed to raise interest rates when they meet this month, perhaps ...