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Chief economist update: The wages of COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... notes, "...JobKeeper payments to eligible employees falls out of scope of the Wage Price Index". Our employers have done good by us! Well ok, JobKeeper has also helped. This is because without it, the lagged negative correlation between wages growth ...

Asset managers still bearish, but less so

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
Asset managers slightly increased their risk tolerance in the second quarter of the year in a bid to ride the equity rally, but risk aversion still remains high. That's according to new research from institutional specialist consultant bfinance, which ...

SME insolvencies set to increase

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... administration artificially - continues to grow and policy makers need to consider the gradual easing of measures to ensure good money is not being thrown away on bad companies," he said. "Just as investors are watching listed companies closely during ...

Chief economist update: Forecasting is futile

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... minister Jacinda Ardern's win versus the virus. You would have had it on your monitors around lunchtime yesterday. It was good... until the evening of yesterday, when Jacinda took the airwaves announcing the discovery of four new cases of infection ...

CBA profit takes hit, dividend cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... Matt Comyn said the strength in the banks' core businesses, combined with strong operational performance, delivering good outcomes for customers and shareholders. Comyn said the bank was able to make some gains due to the divestment of its wealth ...

Global manager launches China A-shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... 80% still rely on broader EM funds to get the exposure, and A-shares exposures also become available via ETFs. "ETF is a good way to get beta exposure to China. But the share market is so inefficient that you really need to be able to get through to ...

Chief economist update: Ardern's ardour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... more we are together, together, together, Oh! The more we are together The merrier we'll be." - Irvin King So far, so good. New Zealand hasn't experience a second wave like Australia. Still, as Bloomberg notes: "While a government wage subsidy ...

Advice firm awarded international certification

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... quality and range of services provided in the advice market. It is hard for consumers to compare providers and understand what good looks like. Becoming a fiduciary is one way we can set the gold standard to signal to consumers that we stand for them," ...

Chief economist update: Good US employment news is not so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
There's good news and bad news in the US labour market report for July. First, the good news: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that total non-farm payrolls rose by 1.8 million in July - more than market expectations for an increase ...

Chief economist update: Escape from Victoria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... unlike other winters' past, news.com.au writes that: "Thousands of Victorians are reportedly looking to flee the state for good, heading north to Queensland." "According to online removalist platform Muval, 20,000 Victorians have looked at relocating ...