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Top franked stock picks: Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2021
... Morningstar is of the view financial risk is moderate considering that revenue is underpinned by long leases with fixed or CPI uplifts, and that its funds management business is sticky given lockups and switching costs. In the 2019 election, the Labor ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... terms of economic stats, we learned how much consumer prices rose in the March quarter. Because of Australia's quarterly CPI reporting convention - versus monthly in most of its counterparts - we suspected and felt, but didn't know by how much ...

Economic recap: Week to July 16

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... eight-consecutive month of decline in the jobless rate. Overseas, the biggest market mover was the faster-than-expected jump in US CPI inflation measures. Overall consumer prices surged by 5.4% in the year to June - the highest since an equal rate in ...

Cbus expecting 19% returns for year

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... years, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. Fok said the fund expects to beat its objective of CPI plus 3.25% but future returns will be lower than this last financial year's 19%. "We're anticipating single-digit ...

Qantas Super introduces passive option, drops fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... REIT Index, Bloomberg AusBond Government All Maturities Index and Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bill Index. With a target return of CPI plus 3.5% over seven years, after tax and fees, members will pay an investment fee of 0.16%. For comparison, Rest's indexed ...

Chief economist update: UK not there yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
... the BOE upgraded its GDP growth forecast to 5.5% in the June quarter from the 4.25% estimated in May and forewarned that "CPI inflation is expected to pick up further above the target... and is likely to exceed 3%", the BOE expects that this will be ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... Policy Meeting on April 26 and 27, 2021", where it revealed that, "The year-on-year rate of change in the consumer price index (CPI) is likely to be slightly negative for the time being. Thereafter, it is expected to turn positive and then increase gradually..." ...

Future Fund to hire 70 for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... external managers and also manage the assets once they are on Future Fund's books. The government has kept the Future Fund's CPI plus return target unchanged, even as low interest rates affect returns from various asset classes and reflation fears make ...

Chief economist: The wages of slow wages growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... reached a high of only 2.3% during that period and the annual rate of inflation remained below the RBA's target - headline CPI and underlying measure at 1.9%. Australia's annual headline CPI inflation has accelerated sequentially over the past ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... no denying that part of the jump in the annual inflation rate in April is due to base effects - both the headline and core CPI dropped by 0.7% in the month of April 2020. However, it's also true that the re-opening of the US economy, pent-up demand ...