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Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
How low can they go? Be afraid, be very afraid. A great number of investors are buying into the relative safety of long-term government bonds despite their dwindling yields, and in the case of the Japanese and Eurozone 10-year government bonds, negative ...

Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... criticising the world's largest fund manager about its failure to manage climate risk shows. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) delivered a scathing report on the US$6.5 trillion fund manager, calling out its "broad ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... manipulator" and/or capital outflows that could lead to increased selling pressure on the yuan. But as we learned in Economics 101, China's deteriorating economic fundamentals make the yuan's depreciation an imperative (if it were allowed to ...

More scrutiny for super fund, insurance firm chiefs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... the chiefs of the four major banks. The Coalition has asked that the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics to expand its remit to inquire into the broader financial services sector, as well as examine how well financial institutions ...

Member interests delay recommended

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has recommended MPs waive the Government's member interests superannuation reforms through Parliament, almost untouched. Releasing the report into its inquiry of the Putting Members Interests First Bill (PMIF) ...

Super body opposes member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... in superannuation and financial services, Women in Super (WIS), has condemned the bill in a submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee's inquiry into the Government's proposal. Steadfastly refusing to support the Putting Members ...

Advice associations weigh in on member interests bill

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... taken similar positions on the Government's latest round of superannuation reforms. In submissions to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee on the Putting Members' Interests First Bill that riled AustralianSuper earlier in the week, the ...

Reform implementation timeframe too short: AustralianSuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... re-introduced Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019 in a submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, AustralianSuper head of insurance product Richard Land said the bill's implementation deadline is ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... government's tax rebates. According to an article by the Sydney Morning Herald ( SMH ) published on July 4: "Deloitte Access Economics director Chris Richardson said the initial tax refunds would act much like the stimulus cheques mailed out by the ...

Chief economist update: ECB to leave no policy tool unturned

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... the September 2017 quarter. While there are nascent signs of stability over economic activity... According to Markit Economics, "The IHS Markit Eurozone Composite PMI rose to 52.1 in June, according to the preliminary 'flash' estimate, up from ...