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China still positive despite unrest

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... a broad US economic momentum slowdown, and question marks over Northern Europe including in Germany, EM and Chinese indicators have been stabilising. This may project a diminishing growth gap between emerging and developed markets, which should support ...

Chief economist update: Chinese green shoots?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... to reverse slowing economic growth. Or is this another one swallow that doesn't a spring make? To be sure, other indicators point to continued weakening in the Chinese economy. Retail sales increased by 7.2% in the year to October -- down from 7.8% ...

Mental health costs insurers $750m per year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... well as life insurers are both experiencing an up-tick in the number of mental illness related claims." SuperFriends' Indicators of a Thriving Workplace Survey showed that one in two Australians have experienced, or are experiencing, a mental health ...

Westpac faces 23 million breaches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... appropriate customer due diligence on transactions to the Philippines and South East Asia that have known financial indicators relating to potential child exploitation risks," AUSTRAC said. "Westpac failed to introduce appropriate detection scenarios ...

Deloitte, TAL partner on AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... analyse call recordings to look for matches to phrases, statements and key words that TAL has identified as potential indicators of risk or poor consumer outcomes," TAL said. "These calls will then be assessed by TAL's quality assurance program, improving ...

Chief economist update: Rate cuts coming, but not on race day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... employment estimates shows persistent weakening in additions to total employment since mid-2018. Leading employment indicators - the ANZ job ads dropped by 10.4% in the year to September; the Westpac-Melbourne Institute 'unemployment expectations ...

Chief economist update: This is a job for the RBA (and the Treasury)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... full-time employment since mid-2018. Worse, even additions to part-time jobs have started to decelerate. Leading employment indicators - the ANZ job ads dropped by 11.4% in the year to August; the Westpac-Melbourne Institute 'unemployment expectations ...

Licensee faces hefty remediation bill

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... allows the team to gather, combine and analyse complex data such as personal customer information, revenue and service indicators like face-to-face meetings, records of advice and annual reviews, to identify potential breaches at both a practice and ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... somewhat slower growth in the second and the third quarters of this year. "Inflationary pressures remain muted and indicators of inflation expectations have declined." When the bank's Governing Council meets again on September 12, it'll find ...

IOOF advice remediation hits $235m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... inadequate documentation and inappropriate advice. IOOF said it used a sample of financial advisers based on key risk indicators to establish possible incidents of inappropriate advice or instances of fees for no service (or no evidence of service). ...