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Low inflation rate masks rising living costs woes

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. In ASFA's latest Retirement Standard, it found over the year to June quarter 2019 costs rose by 1.5% for retiree couples at both the 'comfortable' and 'modest' levels, compared to the 1.6%increase in ...

Xplore continues hunt for chief executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... the quarter. The group also said it lost a client in Melbourne, which contributed to the losses. Sharp said: "The June quarter saw the execution and rollout of the new Xplore Wrap for investment, super and pension." "The wrap has been positively received ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... that had previously lagged the market, as evidenced by the rally in shares of Commonwealth Bank and Telstra in the June quarter.

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... fluctuations, against the background of steady improvement in the employment and income situation." Moreover, the June quarter Tankan survey shows large enterprises - manufacturing and non-manufacturing - are forecasting an increase in their capital ...

Dealer group transitions to fee-based model

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... its competitiveness. We are delighted to welcome a record number of new advisers to our licensee community in the June quarter," he said. This story was updated at 4.00pm.

Chief economist update: Lock in two RBA rate cuts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... virtually at these levels when the RBA last cut the official cash rate (from 1.75% to 1.50%) in August 2016. The June quarter CPI figures (available pre-RBA 2016 rate cut) were: headline at 1%; trimmed mean at 1.7% and weighted median at 1.3%. The one ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... the year to the December quarter, the fifth straight quarter of slowing GDP growth since the 1.7% recorded in the June quarter of 2017 and followed a downwardly revised 0.6% expansion in the previous quarter. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat) ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... largely remains resilient since the referendum. UK GDP growth has slowed only slightly from 1.7% in the year to the June quarter of 2016 to 1.5% in the September quarter of 2018 (latest available); the unemployment rate is at 4.1% (only a smidgen above ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... Household consumption's contribution to GDP growth declined to just 0.2% in the September quarter from 0.5% in the June quarter, and private investment subtracted 0.1 pps after recording no contribution in the previous quarter. Whatever growth in ...

Chief economist update: Bottom line slows down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... adjusted estimate of total company gross operating profits eased to 1.9% in the September quarter from 2.4% in the June quarter and 6.3% in the three-month period before that. The details of the report show that the slowing in total company profits was ...