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Retail funds closing in on return gap

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
The five-year performance gap between not-for-profit and retail funds has narrowed to 130 basis points, according to Rainmaker SelectingSuper research. While the one-year gap to April 2017 widened to 70 basis points, overall retail funds have performed ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... let's all spend a minute silence and pray that yesterday's report of a massive slump in exports - down 8.0% in the month of April - was indeed an aberration caused by Cyclone Debbie that should correct in the coming months. According to Factset data ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
"Better, but not good enough": this is how the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sees developments in the global economy. The OECD also answered its own question - "Will risks derail the modest recovery?" - initially posted ...

US labour market covfefe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... meets on 13-14 June. US non-farm payrolls rose by 138,000 in the month of May - down from the 174,000 addition recorded in April (downwardly revised from 211,000) and significantly less than consensus expectations for a 185,000 gain. There was good news ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... Yes, only yesterday we got a pleasant surprise from the ABS report that showed retail sales surged by 1.0% in the month of April - more than three times the expected growth of 0.3%. But as JP Morgan economist Tom Kennedy explains, the large increase ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... April from 3.5% in the previous month and 7.3% in April last year. Personal lending continued to contract, down 1.5% in April - the 18th straight month of decline. Despite APRA's tighter rules on property lending and banks and lending agencies' implementing ...

Approved to build more dwellings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... the year-on-year numbers show continued contraction in the property sector. Despite a slight improvement in the year to April - down 17.2% from -20% in March - total dwelling units approved remained in double-digit contraction with the latest figure ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... The latest update on Japan's consumer prices shows just that. The annual headline inflation rate accelerated to 0.4% in April - the fastest since January this year and double that of the 0.2% rate recorded in the previous month. Similarly, the core inflation ...

First State Super appoints CFO

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
Profit-to-member superannuation fund First State Super is expanding its executive team with the appointment of a chief financial officer. Tim Elliott, previously the chief operating officer and chief financial officer at StatePlus, has taken up the ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
If Monsieur Benoit Coeure's - member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) - recent comments are any indication, don't expect any changes in ECB monetary policy settings anytime soon. Coure told his audience at a conference at the ...