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Pella Funds Management adds to advisory board

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... Chicago, co-director of the e61 Institute, an editor of the Journal of Political Economy, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and economic consultant at the Federal Reserve ...

Economic recap: Week to November 19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... bottlenecks, prompting businesses and consumers to bid prices higher. But how's it going for Australia? The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update on the country's wages suggests that the RBA is correct. The annual growth in the country's total ...

Economic recap: Week to October 15

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
... 1.55%; and the US dollar index was little changed to 93.20 from 93.16. Not even when on the same day of the release, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that remains on the up and up. The annual headline inflation rate increased to a 13-year high ...

Economic recap: Week to September 3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its "National Accounts" report for the June 2021 quarter, and it was good... nay, it was great! The report showed the economy grew by a better-than-expected 0.7% in the second quarter of the year, taking ...

ERS re-contributions won't be taxed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2021
... contribution cap. In total, super funds released $36.4 billion in 2020 under the ERS scheme. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average withdrawals were $7728 and $7536 across the two tranches.

Wage growth remains low

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... 0.6% wage growth. The rate of growth over the quarter was one of the lowest rates recorded for the series," Australian Bureau of Statistics head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said. The lowest quarterly wage growth by industry was 0.1% for the ...

Economic recap: Week to August 6

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... quarter GDP - before it gets back on track in the December 2021 quarter. There were good news in the US labour market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that non-farm payrolls grew by 943K in July. This is the biggest addition to employment ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... know by how much, that the prices of consumer goods and services have gone up... until now. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that the country's annual headline inflation rate spiked to 3.8% in June from 1.1% in the March ...

AFCA weeds out phony complaints

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has made changes to its procedures to weed out complaints where the consumer didn't really suffer any financial harm. AFCA received feedback from financial institutions, particularly small to medium ...

Economic recap: Week to July 16

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... country." This could also be because Australia is facing the latest hurdle from a position of strength. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that the country's unemployment rate dropped to an 11-year low of 4.9% in June - below the March ...