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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
Australia GDP Economists expected Australia's economic growth to halve to 0.3% in the September quarter from 0.6% in the three-months ended June. That turned out to be highly optimistic. This is because the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) latest ...

Industry fund recovers millions in lost super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
An industry superannuation fund recovered more than $5 million in lost super for members in the three months to September 2016. Vision Super reunited 236 of its members with lost super in the quarter and consolidated multiple accounts of 85 members ...

EQT appoints Rio Tinto super exec

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
Equity Trustees has appointed a new head of trustee services. Grant Currie joins EQT from Rio Tinto's superannuation fund, where he was principal risk and compliance officer. He joined Rio Tinto in 2012, and was also secretary to the fund's audit, risk ...

Locked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
It isn't called the "mother of all stats" for nothing. The US non-farm payrolls report is the most-watched, eagerly-awaited, much-speculated and heavily-dissected statistic not only in America but around the globe. But its outing last Friday produced ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... straight quarter of year-on-year contraction. Spending on buildings & structures decreased by 5.7% in the three months to September (down 24.3% year on year) while expenditure on equipment, plant & machinery fell by 1.9% (up 4.6% yoy). The mining sector ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
Australia private sector credit Total private sector increased by 0.5% in the month of October, better than market expectations for a 0.4% rise and followed gains of 0.4% in each of the previous three months. October's monthly gain were driven by the ...

MySuper lifecycle funds lead the pack

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
The latest Rainmaker Information report indicates several bank-owned MySuper products are increasing their position in the highly competitive superannuation marketplace, especially through lifecycle funds. Rainmaker's September quarter MySuper report ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
US GDP Today's data releases out of the US all but strengthens expectations for a December Fed rate hike. The Bureau of Economic Analysis upgraded US third quarter GDP growth to an annualised rate of 3.2% from the advance estimate of 2.9% and 1.4% in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
US Dallas Fed manufacturing survey Consistent with the significant improvement in recent surveys in the US regions of Philadelphia, Richmond, Kansas City and New York, the Dallas Fed general business activity index surged to a reading of 10.2 in November ...

Green bonds open impact avenue

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
The interest and popularity of socially responsible investments has created new opportunities for investors, and green bonds especially have opened avenues to impact investments for fixed income investors. According to Moody's Investors Service, in ...