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Super for house deposits will push up prices: ASFA

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... said. "Superannuation isn't the reason young Australians can't afford to buy a home of their own. A lack of supply, and the policy settings with respect to residential investment property has had a distortionary effect on demand. These are the real issues ...

Economic recovery has been stronger than expected: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... investment and the wage subsidy program. The central bank governor even tooting his own horn, pointing to the monetary policy measures put in place which helped reduce the cost of borrowing to historically low levels. "The result has been a quicker and ...

Chief economist update: Japan to double down on stimulus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... Japan's (BOJ) 2.0% target. It's not surprising, therefore, that the BOJ is reported to conduct a review of its policy tools at its March meeting to make its pandemic stimulus programme more "sustainable and effective". As per Reuters: "BOJ Deputy ...

Turnbull calls out Wilson, Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... to allow Australians to access up to $10,000 from their super if they had been impacted by COVID-19, was also the wrong policy decision. "I would have preferred that money had come from the government - which means it would have been funded by the tax ...

MetLife appoints former Premier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
MetLife Australia has announced the appointment of head of external affairs and public policy, hiring from the Finance Sector Unit (FSU). Nathan Rees is set to take on the new role at MetLife leaving his previous position at the FSU where he was the ...

Chief economist update: ECB gives PEPP talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
It's not what the European Central Bank (ECB) did at its March governing council meeting - keeping monetary policy settings unchanged - but its PEPP (pandemic emergency purchase programme) talk that sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index on the up and up. ...

Court makes orders in ASIC versus TAL

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... Commission case study. The matter relates to a TAL income protection customer, who in January 2014 made a claim on her policy after being diagnosed with cervical cancer. TAL voided her policy, saying she had failed to disclose some "unrelated prior medical ...

No more easy 6% returns: Fidelity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... successfully incentivised Australians to borrow and spend - with the housing market, in Sydney especially, running hot - monetary policy globally will force investors to think outside the box. An incredible 40-year bull run in the bond market is well ...

Chief economist update: OECD sees stronger growth ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... automobiles (and ships) were grounded. And oh, don't forget the mass hoarding of toilet paper. Monetary and fiscal policy largesse have succeeded in mitigating the deep recessions many countries experienced from diving deeper. Them and the rapid ...

Chief economist update: Getting hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... same time, the IEA expects only moderate growth in total world supply in 2021 as OPEC+ maintains its current production policy to "eliminate the massive oil stock overhang that built up last year" while at the same time forecasting that "total non-OPEC+ ...