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Chief economist update: Australia burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
What could have been a good start to the New Year for financial markets - the US and China are set to sign the "phase one" trade deal agreement on January 15 and Brexit has become less uncertain - marred by renewed war (the real war) tensions between ...

What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
The past year has served as the beginning of the superannuation industry's transformation. Yes, recent years have seen nothing but reform after reform, but 2019 has been something different entirely. The Productivity Commission and Royal Commission ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... just 12 months. 4. Westpac exits personal advice, restructures leadership Following on from our top story of the year, in mid-March Westpac announced it was exiting personal advice and bringing BT Financial Group back in-house. About 175 BT Financial ...

Australians gifted new tech index

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... share price may have performed in the last 12 months." Cunningham said the new index will help grow the profile of small to mid-cap companies that may have been overlooked previously. "There's an acronym out there for the 'big five', the WAAAX stocks ...

Chief economist update: Three cheers for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
"Christmas, Christmas time is near, Time for toys and time for cheer..." - Alvin & the Chipmunks I can almost hear those little chipmunk voices singing this Christmas song as I browsed through last week's news of good tidings... and they came in ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
"Give me a one-handed economist. All my economists say 'on one hand...', then 'but on the other..." - Harry Truman The AFR recently published an opinion piece from Kate Samranvedhya - a Bachelor of Science in Economics graduate from Massachusetts ...

Chief economist update: It's Christmas time in the city

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
... November. Optimistic consumers who have jobs will spend. While the annual growth in US personal spending from around 6% in mid-2018, at 4%, it remains above its long-term average of 3.7%. US personal consumption expenditure accounts for around 70% of ...

CFS culls grandfathered commissions, slashes fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... FirstWrap products, where majority of it are investor assets are. The company has committed to end all trail commissions by mid-2020, as previously reported by Financial Standard. The government has set 1 January 2021 as the end date for all grandfathered ...

ACCC immunity deal questioned by court

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... events and how Galvin was granted immunity. The court was told JPMorgan applied for a "first-in-marker" seeking immunity in mid-2016, around the same time Galvin received a letter from the ACCC outlining its willingness to enter an arrangement. The court ...

Chief economist update: A penny saved, a penny not earned by the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
"As this prudent economy, which some people call Saving, is in private families the most certain method to increase an estate, so some imagine that, whether a country be barren or fruitful, the same method if generally pursued (which they think practicable) ...