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Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Just in time for tomorrow's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monthly board meeting, ME Bank published the results of the 14th survey of its "Household Financial Comfort Report", taken last June. "The ME Household Financial Comfort Report provides ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... - annual growth in UK average weekly earnings (excluding bonuses) slowed to 2.7% in May from 2.8% in April and 2.9% in March - the BOE is confident that, "the tightening labour market was expected to continue to feed through into faster growth in domestic ...

CBA Group Super appoints CIO

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
Commonwealth Bank Group Super has promoted from within to appoint its new chief investment officer. Acting in the chief investment role since March 2017, Ruwanie Dias was promoted to permanently oversee more than $11 billion at the corporate superannuation ...

Chief economist update: At the core-core of it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
Financial markets could have a brand new worry (or not) depending on the outcome of the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) monetary policy meeting that's due to conclude this day. The 30-31 July meeting is particularly significant given last week's flare-up ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
Boom! That's the sound of the US economy popping up to an annualised rate of 4.1% in the second quarter of 2018, up from an upwardly revised 2.2% (from 2%) expansion in the first quarter. While this is in line with market expectations, it's ...

Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... already lacklustre consumer spending - retail sales growth slowed to 2.5% in the year to May from 2.7% in April and 3.1% in March - that leads to lower inflation as businesses offer discounts to maintain revenues, that leads to low wage growth (by virtue ...

Nicholas Moore to retire from Macquarie Group

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
The chief executive and managing director at one of Australia's largest diversified financial services groups will retire in November. Replacing Moore in the top seat at Macquarie Group will be current group head of the firm's asset management ...

Aviva appoints insto lead from Russell

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
Aviva Investors is welcoming a client solutions director in a freshly-minted role, as it expands the investor base for its $862 million Australian institutional business. Joining Aviva Investors from Russell Investments is Divyesh Bhana. At Russell ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
US President Donald Trump has again upped the rhetoric against China (which of course, brought back trepidation over an escalation of the trade war) and most recently he went on attack against his own central bank - the US Federal Reserve. Apparently ...

ETF industry swells to $39 billion, global equities dominate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
Investors are gravitating away from Australian equities and towards international shares as the ETF industry reaches $39 billion, according to latest insight from BetaShares. International equities attracted the highest net inflows of all asset classes ...