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Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... pace in a decade (in the midst of the Global Financial Crisis) to 1.8% in the March quarter from 2.4% in the year to the December 2018 quarter. This gave credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to cut interest rates to a record ...

Top performing ESG options revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... into account. The amount being injected into ESG investment products on an annual basis grew by 37% in the 12 months to December 2018. There is now a total of $30 billion held in super funds' ESG strategies. The super fund with the largest amount ...

J.P. Morgan cuts management fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... strategy with $4.6 billion assets under management. A version of the strategy for Australian investors was incepted on 20 December 2013 and currently has $219 million under management.

Plato fund shuts down

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... under management at March end and has grown five-fold since 2014. It shed $238 million in total FUM between June and December last year.

Chief economist update: US recession in the offing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... inversion in March this year. So much so that, according to the CME FedWatch Tool, the probability of Fed rate reductions by December this year have increased while the odds of the Fed maintaining the current 2.25%-2.5% Fed funds rate dropped to a mere ...

Life insurers post strong March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... life insurance industry turned a $536 million net profit after tax in the first three months of 2019 after a loss-making December quarter, but full-year results are still bleak. The industry reported a net profit after tax of $536 million for the March ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... normality. But perhaps, it was a little too soon when it ended its â,¬2.6 trillion asset purchase programme (APP) on 31 December 2018. More so because it sent the euro/US$ rate climbing back up - a lever it could have used to counteract slowing trade ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... America's unemployment rate was clocked at 3.6% in April - this is the lowest rate of joblessness in nearly five decades (December 1969) - stoking consumer confidence. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index rose to a 15-year high ...

Bank appoints new chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... digital transformation of the bank." The bank has seen significant turnover among its key roles in recent months. In December, BOQ's managing director and chief executive Jon Sutton announced his resignation to focus on his health after a heart operation ...

Chief economist update: The power of one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... more would do more harm than good. It could re-inflate the property market bubble and household debt, that (as of the December 2018 quarter) was running at a record high 189.6% of disposable income - ultimately, lifting financial stability risks.