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ANZ foots compensation bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
ANZ will compensate consumers a total of $10.5 million as a result of OnePath compliance breaches. According to ASIC, ANZ's wealth, insurance and advice arm, OnePath, failed to process superannuation contributions and manage lost inactive member balances ...

Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Not happy Jan! This is the collective cry of Australian consumers according to the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey. Yet only a day before, the NAB business survey showed that business conditions in July were at their best ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
If anything, the National Australia Bank's July business survey added credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's optimistic take on the outlook for economic activity in the country, but not inflation which it expects "to pick up gradually as the economy ...

Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
Signaling a reorientation in Australia's credit markets, the RBA Financial Aggregates report for June shows that business borrowing has surged relative to home borrowings even as home borrowing still dominates credit markets. According to the RBA total ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

Industry fund and wealth manager finalise integration

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
Industry super fund First State Super is welcoming a new acting head of investment strategy as it transitions towards integration with recently acquired wealth management business StatePlus. StatePlus acting chief investment officer Michael Winchester ...

Cheaper imports

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... a 1.2% increase in the previous three-month period. Year-on-year, import prices quickened to 0.3% in June from -0.6% in March - one that according to the ABS is due to the "depreciation of the Australian dollar against major trading currencies". All ...

Warne flags executive reshuffle at Macquarie AGM

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
Macquarie chair Peter Warne highlighted several leadership changes, following on from the merger of two capital markets-facing businesses late last year, at the group's annual general meeting. The head of Macquarie's credit markets division, Michael ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
Australian inflation has decelerated - headline inflation slowed to 1.9% in the year to the June quarter from 2.1% in the March quarter. Yet it's also picked up - the weighted median up to 1.8% from 1.7%; but it's also flat - a trimmed mean steady at ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle snuffed hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash ...