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Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... on top of its 13.8% gain in 2017. Never mind Trump, this alone calls for a currency war for as the latest HIS Markit Economics flash Eurozone PMI shows, "Eurozone expansion slows to weakest since start of 2017" - down to 55.3 in March from 57.1 in February. ...

Chief economist update: The trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... underemployment rate suggests that there's still plenty of slack in the labour market. Financial Standard's recently-released Good Economics Guide contains a definition of the ABS Labour Force survey and its market implications. Here's a snippet: The ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... particularly in terms of its efforts to lessen financial stability risks in the economy. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist, asset allocation strategist, portfolio ...

FASEA releases draft degree equivalence, Code of Ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... be required. With the related fields comprising accounting, financial planning or advice, business, commerce, law and economics degrees FASEA said all advisers with these degrees will be eligible for the relevant bridging course, no matter when they ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... uncertainty that is Trump, suggests continued gradual and gentle Fed policy normalisation. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist, asset allocation strategist, portfolio ...

AdviserLogic signs with global risk profiling giant

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... Risk Tolerance Toolkit was developed with University of New South Wales and is now maintained with London School of Economics academics. Its risk tolerance solutions have been integrated with financial software in the USA and UK. "We are working on several ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... would be no country exempted from the increase in tariffs, there's now "grace" for America's allies. Download The Good Economics Guide: Making sense of key economic data As Bloomberg reports: "Trump agreed to exclude Canada and Mexico from the duties ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... economic growth has been trending at around 2.5% over the past few years. As Financial Standard's recently-published Good Economics Guide explains, total economic output is derived from the sum of consumption (C), investment (I), government spending ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... expanded upon in a recent article by Milliman financial risk management consultant Jeff Gebler, who argued that behavioural economics "has revealed the vast gulf that exists between what people say they want and how they behave." To illustrate this ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... this year; business confidence and conditions are stronger; so too is capex, actual and expected. Download The Good Economics Guide: Making sense of key economic data These were reasons enough for both the ANZ and NAB to expect the Australian central ...