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The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... production, income, and spending would continue to operate." Nah, this isn't from the recent statement, this was from the minutes of the meeting... of 21-22 January 2014. We now know what happened after the consumption tax was raised from 5% to 8% on ...

FS Live Blog: 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... Monday. Thanks for reading! 4.50pm - How do you blog about Sir Bob Geldof ? You can't. He could have stood there for 45 minutes without uttering a word and he would have still left a lasting impact on the audience in the room. He ran through a gamut ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... the no change decision. All good... except for the Board's discussion on iron ore prices - disclosed in the meeting's minutes - was conspicuously absent in the earlier released statement. There was nary a single sentence mentioning members' discussion ...

Record turnout drives Managed Accounts Forum success

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... battled it out to convince the audience which platform had the best and most unique offerings in the market - in just three minutes or less. Even though the prize was $100,000 in virtual money, participants from HUB24, netwealth, Mason Stevens, managedaccounts.com.au ...

Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference, describing the debate as a "mug's game that wasn't going to get resolved in 50 minutes on the Gold Coast." She noted that while she was representing the "passive" side of the debate, Vanguard actually ...

Managed Accounts Forum survey open

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... will enable us to develop more informed editorial content. You can complete the survey here. The survey takes around five minutes to complete and all respondents will receive a copy of the aggregated results on the 14th of September, when the survey ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... remain below the low end of the RBA's 2%-3% target. Ergo, the hawkish interpretations that sprang after the release of the minutes of the RBA's 4 July board meeting were just that... speculations of interpretations, sending the A$/US$ exchange rate down ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle snuffed hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... another justification for the optimism and seemingly hawkish turn the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) conveyed in the minutes of its 4 July board meeting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported total employment grew by 14,000 in June. This ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... international and domestic economy, it told us so - in black and white - in its 4 July Statement of Monetary Policy. But the minutes of that meeting indicate that it was more optimistic than the optimism it relayed in the short statement. This, at least ...