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Chief economist update: Positive feedback loop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... for March. This optimism is reflected in the Services PMI which jumped to a record high reading of 63.7 points in March versus 55.3 in the previous month and market expectations for an increase to 59.0. The March reading marks the 10th consecutive month ...

Chief economist update: When 6%-plus growth is deemed too low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... currency - itself a de facto tightening of financial and economic conditions. The Chinese yuan has now appreciated by a 10.2% versus the US dollar to CNY6.5 from last year's low of CNY7.16.

Court makes orders in ASIC versus TAL

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
The Federal Court yesterday made orders in ASIC's December 2019 case against TAL, which stems from a Royal Commission case study. The matter relates to a TAL income protection customer, who in January 2014 made a claim on her policy after being ...

Chief economist update: Getting hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... that built up last year" while at the same time forecasting that "total non-OPEC+ supply will rise by 830 kb/d in 2021 versus an annual decline of 1.3 mb/d in 2020". However, the recent rise and rise in the price of oil are beginning to make drilling ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... at 1.4% in the December quarter from the previous one (although stronger when calculated using two decimal points, 1.42% versus 1.36%) as private sector wages growth accelerated to 1.4% from 1.2% that was tempered by the slowdown in the growth in public ...

Chief economist update: Red metal turning red hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... business restrictions. The rally in copper prices has also been driven by the US dollar's depreciation. The US dollar index (versus major currencies) has now fallen by 11.4% from the 17-year high it recorded in March last year - which, in itself, suggests ...

Volatility ahead for Magellan shareholders: Morgan Stanley

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
Magellan Financial Group's shares could be more volatile in the years ahead versus its 31% earnings in CAGR over the past three years as it diversifies its business, according to Morgan Stanley. Magellan Financial Group in September 2020 took a 40% ...

Chief economist update: USA Inc is under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... administration incited. In his Inaugural Address, Biden called on Americans to: "...end this uncivil war - red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show ...

MySuper eyes growth asset returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... sector but 0.2 percentage points higher than the balanced sector. Its volatility was much closer to balanced (7.6% p.a. versus 7.4% p.a.) than it was to growth (9.5% p.a.)," the report read. Rainmaker's quarterly scorecard anlayses investment returns ...

Fund supports deidentified recruitment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... the way we hire, recruitment is generally consciously bias, we're deidentifying the system, we're focusing on candidate versus CV," Hunter told Financial Standard. "Since adopting this, in under two years, we've transformed the way we hire. We are on ...