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Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... headline PCE price index is even higher, up 2.3% from 2% year-on-year in April. The Fed was correct all along when in January this year, it stated that inflation would hit target "sometime this year". This, and the strong momentum in the US economy ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... gone? Reasons that the cuts have not yet flowed through into consumers' pockets include it was implemented only in January, so it doesn't explain the sharp deterioration in household spending in the March quarter, especially considering the continued ...

FASEA yet to determine bridging courses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... which all existing financial advisers are required to complete at least some units of an AQF 8 level bridging course by 1 January 2024, but the body is yet to approve any such courses. FASEA confirmed it will commence consideration of such programs for ...

Bank customer trust plummets: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... Royal Commission, according to new surveys. Prior to the Royal Commission, bank customer satisfaction reached 82.3% in January 2018 but plunged to 78.5% in May, Roy Morgan research shows. This is the lowest monthly satisfaction since May 2012, but still ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... 2018? There I observed that similar long stretches of unchanged interest rates - November 2010-October 2011; August 2013-January 2015; May 2015-April 2016 - were each followed by rate cuts despite the RBA's expressed optimism one month before deciding ...

Multi-disciplinary industry trend continues: CBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... providing financial advice will need to complete further education and be licensed under either an AFSL or a limited AFSL from January 2019 if they wish to continue doing so. In the wake of the Dover Financial Advisers scandal, Association of Financial ...

Former ANZ GM joins NAB

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... advice general manager covering similar geographical areas as Motton. Adrain De Silva joined NAB Financial Planning in January as general manager for South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

FASEA begins work on adviser exam

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... measure of professional standards reforms for financial advisers, with all new advisers required to pass an exam from 1 January 2019 and all existing advisers required to do so by 1 January 2021. Last month FASEA also partnered with the Tertiary Education ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... movements back this up. The second longest stretch of steady interest rates is the 18-month period between August 2013 and January 2015 with the cash rate frozen at 2.5% before being lowered to 2.25% on February 2015. The RBA doesn't meet in January ...

CYBG revises Virgin Money offer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... regarding other terms and conditions of the proposal, while due diligence is currently being conducted, they said. In January 2016, NAB shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the bank's demerger with CYBG. The bank at the time said the demerger ...