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Time running out to book places for Chief Economists Forum

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
With just two weeks to go before the Chief Economists Forum, independent economist and master of ceremonies for the breakfast event, Saul Eslake, has revealed what he expects to be the major talking points. The upcoming forum will take place in Melbourne ...

Vanguard tells investors to watch what they pay

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... January market route, Vanguard group chairman and chief executive Bill McNabb has hit back. Super funds, asset managers, economists and academics alike have said investors must expect lower returns in the future than they have been used to in the past ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... that's if all goes as planned." The same WSJ article, scribbled by Jon Hilsenrath, reports that "More than half of economists polled predict federal-funds rate back near zero within next five years". Fifty eight percent of 65 economists ("not all of ...

Registrations for 2016 Chief Economists Forum open

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
Leading Australian economist Saul Eslake will be the master of ceremonies at the 2016 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum taking place in February. The former Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist extends his association with the thought-leadership ...

Spreading the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015

Pick a number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... One thing is for certain though - we'll know the RBA's decision (230PM) long before the Melbourne Cup runs (300PM). Economists and financial markets have placed convincing rationale rationals for why the RBA will/the RBA won't cut interest rates from ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... 64% of them believe the 15-16 December FOMC meeting will produce a lift-off. What's that joke again... the one about economists accurately predicting 12 of the last three recessions? This is in contrast with indications from fed funds futures trading ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... Investment Solutions Group for Asia Pacific tells Laura Millan that he has learnt to relax watching Youtube videos of economists. "It's almost appalling," Wills says of his secret hobby. "But I like trying to understand a topic or a subject that I find ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... Reuters, "just one of its nine policymakers - Ian McCafferty - had voted for a rate hike at their August meeting... Most economists in a Reuters poll had expected two or even three members of the Monetary Policy Committee to vote for a rate hike". And ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... off of the zero-bound interest-rate policy and nobody knows what it means for the market." Again, true that. While economists, financial market experts and the baker, the butcher and the candlestick maker try to outguess each other and the Fed over the ...