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Morrison protects homes from Age Pension means test

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
Federal Social Services Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that the family home will never be included in the Age Pension means test under a Coalition government. At the same time, a raft of pension reforms potentially saving $2.4 billion in the ...

Suspended SIV scheme raised $3bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
More than $3 billion has been invested in Australia via the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program, which was temporarily suspended last week. Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection statistics show that $3.255 billion has been invested ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
All eyes, ears, and noses are on the Fed and how it crafts its forward guidance when its 2-day FOMC meeting concludes tomorrow. Yes, it's forward guidance for there is nothing in the stars pointing to a lift-off announcement when tomorrow comes. While ...

BetaShares US equity ETF rated

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
The BetaShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF has become the fund provider's seventh vehicle to be awarded a 'Recommended' rating by Lonsec. The fund, which has the ASX code QUS, was launched in January and aims to track the performance of the FTSE RAFI US 1000 ...

Go flip a coin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... that "automotive fuel" prices are starting to reflate: "Automotive fuel fell in November (-4.2%), December (-8.4%) and January (-11.6%) before rising in February (+5.1%) and March (+10.3%)." So "no", the RBA won't risk policy based on a measure that's ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... February and March and the annual core inflation rate slowed to 1.0% in March from 1.2% in the previous month and 1.4% in January -expectations that headline inflation could turn temporarily negative in the coming months and the looming 7 May general ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
It's bad, it's bad, it's bad you know it. They say bad news come in threes - we've got all three at the end of last week. Greece running out of money and reform deal still looks unlikely heading into its meeting with 'the institutions' four days and ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
They talk the talk but aren't walking the talk. This is what I walk out with after poring through the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) sentiment and asset allocation surveys conducted in the last week of March. In its 2 April report ...

Super industry views sought on data collection

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Industry representatives are encouraged to comment on changes to new superannuation reporting requirements proposed for the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) published a recent ABS letter regarding ...

PMI surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
Markit Economics' flash PMI (purchasing managers' index) data dump yesterday gives us the lay of the land for first quarter economy and beyond. While it's tempting to correlate these PMI readings with the effectiveness (or not) of the monetary policy ...