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Chief economist update: Australia needs a cheaper A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... market. Sure, it was great news for the US economy but... it also eased growing expectations the Fed would cut interest rates by 50 bps from the current 2.25%-2.5% as early as its July FOMC meeting to just a 25bps reduction. The Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... odds for a Fed rate cut this month. The CME FedWatch Tool puts the probability that the US central bank will cut interest rates by 25 bps to 2%-2.25% at the conclusion of its July FOMC meeting at 95.1%. This is backed-up by the Fed's semi-annual ...

Fund managers lag on ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... PTM) The average tenure of a Platinum fund manager is 16 years, owing to inclusive culture which improves the retention rates, J.P. Morgan said. PTM also purchases carbon credits to offset material carbon emissions. However, it did not provide indicators ...

HUB24 defends cash accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... clients and the fee example reference in the article was "not representative of the administration fees paid and interest rates received for the majority of our clients". It maintains that all of its clients "are receiving a positive interest rate on ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... trading partners is consistent with his view (and criticism) that the US Federal Reserve should have been cutting interest rates instead of raising them when it did. Certainly, it would put downward pressure on the US dollar and, coupled with his increased ...

Chief economist update: The back-to-back rate cuts Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... July" speculator, going against the 'Big Four' banks and financial market expectations that it would... cut interest rates by another 25 bps at its July 2019 board meeting. So soon after it cut the official cash rate a month before. In two months' ...

Group insured, advised clients better off

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... March, the latest iteration covers the rolling 12-month period from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018. It found admittance rates for individual advised clients were generally higher than for those without an adviser. Advised client death claims were ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
There's no question about it, for sure and for certain the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates again. RBA governor Philip Lowe told us so when he addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event in Adelaide ...

ASIC product intervention to commence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... seen by ADIs in 2009. Institutions were actively and deliberately engaging in dual pricing; advertising the higher interest rates available on two or four deposit terms while maintaining significantly lower rate for all other terms. Which deposit terms ...

Chief economist update: Expect an RBNZ rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... following the RBNZ's rate cut announcement in May on mounting speculations the US Federal Reserve would cut interest rates this year.