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Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... in 2019 before accelerating to 3.4% in 2020. While the unemployment rate remains low, the tick up to 4.5% in the June quarter from the nine-month low of 4.4% in the previous quarter ended five straight quarters of falling jobless rate. The sharp and ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... growth in wages in the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Wage Price Index (WPI) report and portends that the June quarter would not be much different from the 2.1% growth in the March quarter. "...the latest HFCR data found nearly half of households ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... (4.9%). The year-on-year pace of expansion accelerated from 2.6% to 2.9% in the second quarter - the best since the June quarter of 2015. At the core of the second quarter's expansion is the consumer - the heart of the economy. Consumer spending ...

Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the June quarter from 1.9% in the first quarter. This missed market expectations for a 2.2% gain and was mainly driven by the strong rise in ...

Deductible super contributions front of mind: BTFG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... increased. According to BT Financial Advice's (BTFA) technical team, the top query from financial advisers in the June quarter was about deductible personal superannuation contributions. With Australians now able to contribute up to $25,000 in pre-tax ...

HUB24 introduces low-cost product

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... accelerate the movement of FUA away from vertically integrated platforms. HUB24 signed 22 new distribution agreements June quarter, which included Fitzpatricks Private Wealth. About $700 million of Fitzpatricks' FUA is expected to transition to the platform ...

Financial services executives in the money

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... under administration over the last financial year. Now totaling $17.96 billion, Netwealth added $1.95 billion in the June quarter alone. As at March 2018, Netwealth was the 10th biggest platform by market share and attracted 22.1% of net fund flows to ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... total exports, China 18%. The diffusion index - rise minus fall -- of input prices in manufacturing rose to 30 in the June quarter from 26 in March. This should be a positive for the BOJ's efforts at lifting domestic inflation but with the diffusion ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
The third and final estimate of US GDP growth showed the economy grew at an annualised rate of 2% in the first quarter of 2018. This is lower than market expectations and would be unchanged from the second estimate's 2.2% rate. While the slight ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... and certainly a consequence of the revisions in the Fed's growth, unemployment and inflation forecasts in the June quarter: 2018 GDP growth was revised higher to 2.8% (from 2.7% predicted in the March quarter) and unchanged at 2.4% in 2019, the unemployment ...